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Subject: Re: ELO of the chess programs in the 2010

Author: Martin Schubert

Date: 14:11:38 08/17/01

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On August 17, 2001 at 04:47:51, José Carlos wrote:

>On August 16, 2001 at 09:41:18, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>Well, in my opinion this depends to several things:
>>
>>Maybe we will have a future, where chess programs play in tourneys and
>>sponsorship is there to make it interesting for the GMs to play with to programs
>>seriously...
>>
>>THEN i believe in this: At the moment programs can achieve ratings of 2700 and
>>higher in those tournaments with humans... when the GMs start to play serious
>>with the programs and start to study them because they need to, i think there is
>>no doubt that the ratings will lower to say 2500 or so... but well, the
>>chess-programmer do not sleep - so in 2010 we are maybe back at 2700... - I am
>>TOTALLY sure, that nor in 2010 neither in 2030 a chess program hit 3000 in
>>tournament time control...
>>
>>Greets, Thomas
>
>  Not with actual hardware, probably, but hardware gets faster and faster. I
>expect in 2010 hardware to be so fast that programs will crash _most_ GM's. In
>2030 programs _definetly_ will be beyond 3000.
>  But maybe we could invent a new game (derived from chess) where branching
>factor will be too big to compute even with super-fast machines, and where human
>inference capabilities can still rule for some more years...
>
>  José C.

What about trying Go...



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