Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 07:05:29 07/04/01
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On July 04, 2001 at 00:41:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>I gave the reasons in a response to Dan earlier. > >Simply stated: > >human gm players _know_ they will never face a computer in a rated FIDE >event. Since it is explicitly not allowed by recent FIDE rule changes. >Therefore preparing for a computer is a poor use of time when they have to >contend with Kasparov, Kramnik, Shirov, etc. > >Until computers can play in real FIDE events, they won't be taken seriously >as a GM will not be willing to commit the necessary time to study them and >learn the specific weaknesses most programs have. > >If you want to see GMs take notice, start allowing computers into FIDE events, >and allow the computers to actually _win_ the cash prizes. That will get >attention, and quickly. I forget who said, that a GM can't study for computer play in the future because the computer he studies today may not be the computer he will play. The computer is constantly being timkered with. Am I playing Fritz 6, or Fritz 6e, or whatever it wants to be called. But the computer can "study" the GM. I don't think the GM engine will be tinkered with much. Jay
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