Author: Joe Little
Date: 21:32:36 04/17/02
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On April 17, 2002 at 17:15:46, martin fierz wrote: >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 It doesn't take alot of originality to copy a game, but I guess a win is a win.
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