Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:12:59 02/15/02
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On February 15, 2002 at 18:42:43, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Let say that the New Fide Champion Ponomariov play against either Rebel Century >4, Chess Tiger or Fritz 7 without any preparation in a match of 5 Games using >the Fide's New Time control, do you think that any of these programs have a >chance of winning the match? Sure. The fewer the number of games and the faster the time control, the higher the odds become in the computer's favor. At 2 games of G/5 minutes, very likely the computer would win. Especially if the GM is not allowed to prepare. But if you are a GM, you would be an idiot to accept that match. Even if you were the world champion, and you had to face a human opponent would would not be announced until the day of the match, you would be foolish to accept it. After all, he could prepare and prepare and you would not know what you will face. The strength of computers is accuracy at high speed. They are poorest at correspondence chess (but still very good) and strongest at blitz. In a 2 game match of G/10 I would not be surprised to see a super GM lose to a program of only high strength like Arasan, Amyan or Bringer, especially if not allowed to prepare. Computers are very strong. They may well be of GM strength. If GM's prepare hard against them and still get repeatedly beat, they may even be above GM strength. Time will tell, eventually.
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