Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 04:21:15 04/25/02
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On April 25, 2002 at 06:07:04, Michael Vox wrote: >My rating is between 1700 and 1800 ELO so I am considered a strong club player. >I do not play against my best software, it is to strong, however; I do use the >other features, in particular the Analysis Engine. This tool has improved my >chess immeasurably. If it were a hundred years ago, I would still be around >1400 ELO. My location is rather isolated for finding (H)umans to play against. >We can now with a flick of a switch at any time play a GM, it will beat us, no >laughing at us and then it shows us our mistakes, now that we should be thankful >for. I don't know if the programs can teach us much other than tactics. I have never been impressed by the positional play of computers, the last Smirin-HIARCS game came very close though, but apparently HIARCS was unable to understand the endposition as drawn. Smirin demonstrated superior bishop-knight endgame understanding, and managed to trick HIARCHS into the drawn endgame. It is very typical for humans, that if you cannot win, play for the draw. He did the same kind of trick against Junior. When/if computers learn to recognize these "trivial" drawn positions, then I think they will become virtually unbeatable by humans. -S.
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