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Subject: Re: Smirin vs. Shredder - a question

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 09:50:56 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.

I looks so easy when done by a master, and programs do in general tend to be
very passive IMO.
But even though I know most programs has these weaknesses I am not able to
exploit them, and I think that goes for about 99% of all chessplayers.

I do believe that we could develop anti-computer strategies, but I also believe
that the programmers could develop anti-anti-computer/anti-human strategies. It
just hasn't been done on a large scale on either side yet.

A match like this is good, it will expose the programs positional weaknesses and
that is what the programmers need to fix it, I fear the programmers have been
too focused on comp-comp matches for too long.

-S.



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