Author: Jesper Antonsson
Date: 14:48:37 06/23/02
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On June 23, 2002 at 16:49:06, Jerry Jones wrote: >Would grandmasters agree to play (simultaneous) correspondence chess ? >Suppose your computer (not necessarily as strong as Big Blue) runs 24 / 7 and >the GM spends 20 min / day pondering his next move, the GM won't have a >snowball's chance in hell. Or is this not logical ? No, not really. Grandmasters excel in strategic planning, greatly surpassing computers. The computers strength mainly lie in tactics, where each human mistake that can be exploited within the computers search radius also *will* be exploited. So, computers are surpassing world champion strength in really fast games, but the more time you give the grandmaster, the less likely he is to make a tactical mistake and the more likely it is that he will use his planning ability to slowly outplay the computer. Give the GM twenty minutes a move and time to rest between the moves, and the odds are he will crush the computer, even if it gets 24 hours a move. Incidentally, the Deep Blue guys thought stressing Kasparov, not allowing rest, was beneficial enough compared to search depth that they made Deep Blue play almost twice as fast as it had to. >JJ
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