Author: stuart taylor
Date: 12:04:24 05/15/02
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On May 15, 2002 at 13:50:21, Fernando Villegas wrote: >You have mentioned all the reasons, except one: it is very sedate to lose a game >againts a GM class program and so not to realize that we would lose the same >game againts a club player anyway. We develop a self deception in that way, our >loses accounted as being suffered because of the mastery of the program instead >of our own weaknesses. >Fernando REALLY?! Is that true? A human GM can leave his queen en prise for you to take (with no compensation). A computer can't do that even if it wanted to. When I see human GM losses, it is often so easy to see. But machines don't ever allow these simple tactical wins. So I think that human GM's are much sweeter to play than top computers! And even if you win the computer, you must continue till it resigns or is mated, and for good reason too. The machine doesn't give up because it's losing or "lost", so it need not resign! I once los a freindly game to IM Malcom Pein and I thought, of course! he's an IM. But when I got home i saw that a simple program (genius 3 on 386, perhaps) played all his good moves at blitz level if not instant! S.Taylor
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