Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 14:24:04 08/15/01
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On August 15, 2001 at 12:26:31, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On August 15, 2001 at 11:39:38, Joshua Lee wrote: > >>Nothing because Computers Can't! >> >>But there are some positions with the incorrect solution As i said before. > >There are 879 positions in the ECM suite, and mine finds over 500 in less than >one second. There is also "Brilliant Ways To Checkmate", almost all of which >will be found in under a second. That's an easy suite, but could any human do >the whole book (1001 positions) in under five or ten minutes? > >My point here is that arguments of the form, "Computers are not GM's because >they can't solve *this* position in tournament time", are unsound. They can >solve many other hard problems very quickly. An argument that states that >computers must be stronger than humans because they can solve these problems >more quickly than humans is just as sound as your argument -- meaning not sound. > >GM strength is based upon something. I suggest that it's based upon ability to >score points in chess games, rather than the ability to solve some small >fraction of tactical problems in tournament time. > >bruce The long and "tragic saga" of my chessplaying (and probably for most other humans)is that one error usually is more than enough. So if you miss just one move in a game its often just as bad as missing all of them. Of course, the programs usually only do possitionally bad moves, not nearly as catastrphic in the short run. Torstein
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