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Subject: Re: Is the "are computers GMs" debate laid to rest yet?

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 13:48:31 04/12/02

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On April 12, 2002 at 13:34:49, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On April 12, 2002 at 13:05:58, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>
>>On April 12, 2002 at 10:55:01, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>Maybe someday tens of thousands of hours will be spent by GMs to develop the
>>>ability for to win a game that had been played previously only by computers.
>>>The human skill of beating strong computer chess opponents is still in its
>>>infancy.
>>
>>That's not true, anticomputer techs are well known from long time...
>>
>
>
>That is like Philidor saying, in the 1700s, that the correct openings or all
>chess strategies are known and will never be improved.  (You cannot know what
>better techniques will be found in the future!)
>

Roy, I admire you since you are an "incurable" optimist...

>
>>Yet even this early, there are non-GMs who consistently score well
>>>against the top programs.  If and when that new skill is improved, spread
>>>around, and finally adopted by the top GMs, we may see very different results.
>>>
>>>Or maybe not.  We'll just have to wait and see.
>>
>
>>Programmers are developing powerful anti-gm weapons meanwhile, see e.g. Ed's
>>program.
>
>
>I don't disagree with that point at all.  I am saying that humans are ALSO
>developing powerful anti-computer weapons.

I admit to be really interested in this newly found anticomp techs since I know
only the classical "repertoire", if you can gimme some hints...that should be
greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Otello






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