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Subject: Re: My Two cents worth on the Smirin vs Computers match

Author: martin fierz

Date: 14:15:46 04/17/02

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On April 17, 2002 at 16:10:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 17, 2002 at 05:53:11, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>
>>On April 17, 2002 at 01:56:22, Joe Little wrote:
>>
>>>  Please do not misunderstand me. GM Smirin is a Great player, one to be
>>>admired. However I am not all that impressed by his win against Shredder, it
>>>appears to Me that he basically copied the Van Wely Fritz6 game of 2000. The two
>>>games are almost identical.
>>
>>I had the same impression of yours when I saw the two games, that's
>>unbelievable! They seem photocopied...but anyway can be just a coincidence.
>>
>>w.b.r.
>>Otello
>
>
>That is yet _another_ problem for computers to address.  Book learning and
>position learning _barely_ scratch the surface of this problem.

...which is what the guys who say "i'm disappointed with smirin's play, he just
copied van wely" seem to miss - while some program authors claim their programs
can learn from mistakes, this learning is very very limited! and to otello: it
is not coincidence that the games are similar. smirin obviously knew van wely -
fritz. and computers just don't understand that position... and with all their
processing power they cannot copy ideas, only moves.

aloha
  martin



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