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Subject: Re: 25 GHz processors!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:25:05 11/27/01

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On November 27, 2001 at 16:45:30, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 27, 2001 at 15:54:33, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On November 27, 2001 at 12:32:19, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>
>>>I think your opinion would change if you quit using your computer to play your
>>>games for you Uri! In fact i think you would soon discover that you have the
>>>fastest computer/best computer in the world ...the human brain   check into it!
>>
>>Uri has said himself that he does not always play the computer suggested move.
>>Since he is very, very good at what he does, I suggest that he uses his brain
>>well enough.  I think he uses the computers mostly for suggestions and debugging
>>his ideas.
>
>I am using my brain but I am very vareful with it.
>I usually use it to choose between moves of different programs but there are
>also rare cases when I do not choose a computer move.
>
>
>  If you play nothing but computer moves, I think it will surely cost
>>you some moves.  I have seen where a computer completely trapped its own piece,
>>thinking at 24 hrs per move!
>
>I believe that you are not going to find many positions when all the top
>programs do it.

No, not many.  But when you do see it happen, it will be clear to someone using
their brain.  No human will choose that move (It was from a Steve Ham game).
At any rate, I think the best possible combination is cyborg (human brain for
strategy, and computer to check for tactical sneaks and gotchas)




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