Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:47:16 04/11/02
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On April 11, 2002 at 16:09:32, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >Don't you think, as I state in another post that most GM's are so proud of their >own style of playing chess and also confident in their ability in this game that >to betray their own way of playing just to beat a "stupid silicon thing" is >often *just* not taken in account by the majority of them ? > >e.g. of a GM's possible thought : >"Why do I have to modify my superior style of playing to cheat you little piece >of silicon , you inferior piece of hardware compared to me "homo sapiens >sapiens" perfect product of millions of years of evolution !" > Here's what I said over there: "I don't think ALL grandmasters will develop super anti-computer skills, but I think SOME will add this new skill to their repertoire. Really, all it will take is ONE to change everything. (IMO it IS a separate skill from what GMs have already developed, but they will need BOTH skills in abundance to consistently beat the top computers. Most GMs probably won't care much about beating computers, but I'm guessing that a few will.)" But here's something else: I don't think it's necessarily a betrayal of their style. It might be a small modification of their preferred move at certain junctures, but a complete betrayal of their style is probably overstating what's necessary IMHO. Also, I doubt too many GMs think humans are perfect; if they do think that, they can just play a few highly tactical games against computers and that will quickly teach them otherwise. :-)
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