Author: Dan Ellwein
Date: 04:46:05 05/18/02
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On May 15, 2002 at 10:05:28, stuart taylor wrote: >This is not a url which I'm intending to post here, nor something to do with >some GM's comments, but precisely what I asked. What brought us to >computerchess, and what keeps us at it, and what are we looking for in it? > I think all this is one of the most relevant points for discussion on this >forum, but we don't seem to want to think into ourselves. > But it is clear that different people on this forum have slightly different >aspects of interest in this. > Well, for me, it was origionally a fascination with the fact that computers >were not that good and it was a big job trying to get them to think like a human >being, yet it seemed that chess is purely mathematical which makes it all the >more strange that it was so difficult to get in on computer. > So therefore it must be that there is something deeper behind it, and it >fascinated me to see how much of what ever might be deeper, that computers can >do. > It was like a bridge between the physical and the spiritual. A fascinating >suspicion (that there could be such a thing). AND, I felt that my chess >computers were a little bit like a human companion, and the whole idea was >baffling. > Also, I wanted to feel what it's like to play a GM, and to constantly try again >and again to see if I could ever speak on the same terms, atleast, if not ever >to draw or win. Of course, computers never satisfied me completely as they >worked on a completely diferent system, so there was not much comparrison to >humans. > But it started from an interest and fascination with CHESS. >What about some others of us? >S.Taylor I sort of look at it this way: Chess is to computer chess what pi (3.14159 etc) is to the number 3... there is a relationship but not a direct one... we want to try to rationalize something that is irrational... a chess program tries to define chess as a/b (a rational number)... but chess is irrational... chess = pi (not rational not a/b not 3)... close, alas, but no cigar... pilgrimdan
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