Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 07:07:59 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 08:17:04, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >So, are these the programs supposed to play at a 2700 level? Sure, they win many >games against strong humans, but... Where is their chess competency? Shredder´s >errors against Smirin were so elementary that they would not fit well in a >strong club player´s blitz game. There are a couple of chess skills that the best computers have that are MUCH BETTER than any human has. There are several other chess skills that the best humans have that computers almost completely LACK. In the past couple of years, the former set of skills has suddenly become the bigger factor in GM-computer matches. The GMs may now be starting to realize that they need to steer the games in a different direction and need to study and practice just how to do this. IMHO, strong chessplaying humans who spend the significant time and effort will steadily increase the degree to which the latter set of skills is the bigger factor in these matches. They'd better hurry, because the computers are getting faster and the software is being revised all the time to minimize the effect of that second set of skills. All of this is, of course, IMHO.
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