Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:42:41 06/13/01
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On June 12, 2001 at 23:56:26, Terry McCracken wrote: >Many IM's and GM's have felt the teeth of these and many other programs like >Fritz, Junior, Tiger etc. > >However, it's true they lose to much lower rated players, even to me >sometimes!;) Humans have a hard time coping with this. A human who plays chess is an apple. A computer that plays chess is not an orange, but it's not quite an apple, either. You can compare them, but not perfectly. A ludicrous example: Compare an unarmed human with a tank. A tank can blow up a house at a range of over a kilometer, and can survive machine gun fire, whereas an unarmed human cannot blow up a house at a range of even one meter, and would fare badly against machine gun bullets. On the other hand, there are ditches that a tank cannot get out of, while a human might have an easy time with these ditches. You can't deny the tank its strengths just because there's a ditch a human can handle better. End of ludicrous example. Computers are getting better at being uniformly strong, but they are not now, and will probably never be, perfect human analogs. There will always be the possibility that a weak human player can say "duh" to one of these machines -- sometimes. bruce
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