Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 00:04:52 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 01:31:51, Joe Little wrote: >On April 16, 2002 at 18:28:36, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>On April 16, 2002 at 17:19:13, martin fierz wrote: >>>a program which plays a game like shredder vs. >>>smirin is just not GM strength. it is 3000+ in tactics and 2000- in positional >>>play. >> >>I think that chess is made over 90% of tactics... so 2700+ is not an optimistic >>evaluation. >> >>Regards, >>Otello > > > I agree, seems pretty obvious to me but who am I? Yes Chess is 90% tactics at least, maybe even 95%! But that would still only mean that programmes play around 2700 level in tactics only, not in positional play and planning, which is _fundamental_ and till a programme aquires this skill in won't be a _complete_ Grandmaster. Planning is many years away, positional play is advanced a long ways but still needs improvement. Computers will play 2800+ in tactics long before it can actually manage deep positional play, let alone planning. When _all_ weak areas are finally addressed, Computers will be stronger than a GM and will win almost all the time, but that is likely many years down the road. However they may be still beating GM's almost consistently when Computers are at 2800+ at tactics. Only the best anti-computer play will succeed, against them, although there will still be a few players who will win without using anti-computer play, but not many. Terry
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