Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:13:37 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 11:53:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 15, 2002 at 10:02:48, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On April 15, 2002 at 08:56:27, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >> >>>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. >>> >>>Let's not go crazy over ONE game! we need to ask these questions after the >>>match, also you can not say "So, are these the programs supposed to play at a >>>2700 level?" when this is a games based on one programs performance! >>>Other than that i agree, it was not pretty... >>> >>>Regards >>>Jonas >> >>Thanks, Jonas people here are precipitating the outcome already based on one >>single lost by Deep Shredder. I would like to point out that even Kasparov >>himself lost several games in less than 35 moves to players less than 2700. It >>is NOT that Computers programs which are estimated to be rated 2700 has >>performed like a 1700, it simply did not calculated the outcome of the King Side >>attack. >> >>Pichard > > >Not "did not calculate". Instead, "did not understand"... Computers understand nothing. They only calculate. The evaluation function is only calculation based on a formula that the programmmer told the computer. Uri
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