Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 13:09:14 07/09/01
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On July 09, 2001 at 14:10:56, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >But you do admit that it is not *only* tactics then? I don't care how much >importance you place on tactics/calculation, the main point is that we are now >agreeing tactics is not 100%? Once again, I disagreed with the article saying: >"chess is only tactics". > I agree with you ,Gordon. But for me the prevalent slice of the chess cake will go to tactics for the reasons already explained. >> >>Not completely true since the tactics aspects are easily mastered by comps. > >Wrong! There are many *tactical* test positions that computers can't solve. >They may be better than humans, but many positions are far from easy. I submitted to a comp. program many positions very difficult to solve and requiring "creative" solution too, you probably will guess the results...since I was literally amazed how fast this hard problems were solved. > >To put it another way... > >If you think that chess is mainly tactics and that this is "easily mastered by >comps", why has it taken so many years for the best computers to beat the best >humans? Obviously I was talking about "state of the art" technology, but I think that also programs of several years ago were pretty strong tactical monsters. >Also, do you think that Fritz will defeat Kramnik? Do you think that >Kramnik can calculate better than Fritz? If Kramnik wins, what elements of his >chess playing ability will be major factors in his success? > I think that Deep Fritz can calculate better than Kramnik, especially if powered by such powerful hardware (8 processors if i'm not wrong). I don't know who will be the winner but surely Kramnik will have an hard time to outplay the machine tactically. Probably he will go for closed positions trying to exploit a possible weak point of the program, but for sure it won't be an easy job. Regards
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