Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:17:22 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 15:11:57, Dana Turnmire wrote: >On April 22, 2002 at 15:05:55, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>How can any guess after 1997 be a good guess? >>It's already been accomplished. > >It seems to me if the programming team can have the game history of the human >then the human should be allowed to have the history of the computer program. >What's good for the goose is good for the gander. No serious match has ever >taken place in a true world championship setting. If a computer can be beaten >the same time every game because its games have been studied then it obviously >isn't worthy of ANY title. That may be your opinion, but the original poster said, and I quote, "predict the year a chess computer will defeat the human world chess champion in a match." That has been done, regardless of whether you think the conditions were "correct". Not that this would ever happen, but what if a player who had never played any rated chess was to play a match against the world champion? Let's say a very wealthy man studied his whole life and played chess, but never FIDE rated or any large tournaments (IE no games to look at), and he payed the world champion to play in a match with him, and beat the world champion. Does that mean that he didn't "defeat the human world chess champion in a match" just because he wasn't supplied with previous games of his opponent (most likely because there weren't any available)? Of course not. The original poster's conditions were met, so a computer has already defeated the human world champion in chess. Russell
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