Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:52:48 07/15/98
Hi Don: You are right thinking that sooner or later computer will cut in pieces any oposition at the point that the GM norm they use will be something different and far above our, but in the meantime the interest to see if actually a computer do or can do what is neccesary to be a GM has a point. If I don't recall baldly, an important fraction of the interest chess computers produced from the beginning was based in his eventual capacity to overcome human being in intellectual tasks or at least simulate them. That were the times of AI discussions and hopes and surely a lot of that has vanished, but a lot still remains and is still a factor of progress. I cannot forecast more than you or anybody, but I believe that if a chess program could get good resuls regularly against human GM oposition, that would be a new and powerfull rocket in the tail of this endeavour, a new and rekindled interest in AI in many universities that currently think of that as a closed way, so orienting bright students to anothers ways. Science is not isolated from fades and fashions and many times a new impulse has been gathered by a field just because a sensational thing like this happened. A GM in human terms program could be very good for chess computer in particular and for AI developments in general. But the, this should be a GM norm won in human terms, under human rules. Of course, there the problem aries: I don't see many GM's giving room tho these competitor so easily. Fernando
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