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Subject: Re: "Terrible defeat by Rebel?", Part II

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 15:23:30 02/21/02

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On February 21, 2002 at 17:18:52, martin fierz wrote:

>>i would say, computers today resemble a manic-depressive supergrandmaster in
>their results - not in their play. there are many positions which they do not
>understand. they can achieve the same performance as a grandmaster quite often,
>and yet they are totally clueless in whole classes of positions,

Very few indeed nowadays and especially found in endgames, but there are
tablebases for that...

which even
>human beginners can understand.
>people like me say that computers are not grandmasters, because they have
>completely different capabilities than a grandmaster - they reach the same ends
>by *totally* different means. i'm not saying they play worse performancewise.
>but they are something different. you cannot compare apples and oranges :-)
>

If that is your point the match between Human and comps are nonsense for you ?

w.b.r.
Otello

>aloha
>  martin



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