Author: William Kerr
Date: 09:07:11 04/26/02
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On April 26, 2002 at 01:16:31, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>I must say that for a long time I kept hope alive that computers would never be
>able to dominate the top human players in a serious match. Needless to say this
>very thing is in the process of happening as we sit here. In 1963 I.A. Horowitz
>and P.L. Rothenberg wrote a book entitled "The Complete Book of Chess." In
>chapter 19 ("The Future of Chess") they write:
>
>"That a richly endowed robot will one day be able to play a highly skillful game
>of Chess leaves no room for doubt. On the other hand, in the absence of a
>fantastic superspeed electronic brain, the Chess championship of the world is
>likely to be retained by humans for centuries to come."
>
>I don't know what "superspeed" meant back in 1963 but it seems that in the near
>future a simple desktop computer with a 50$ chess program will be able to take
>on the human world champion and win. Sad to me.
However, no matter how good chess computers/programs get there will still be
HUMAN world champions event if their chess play is below computers. It will
always more fun to play a human than a computer program in the long haul. After
all why continue to play a computer if your chances of winning are
1 in 1,232,553,434,223. Which happens to be my odds at beating Chess Challenger
10.
Bill
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