Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 22:32:26 08/04/98
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Computer programs have long since passed "Joe on the street" as far as chess ability. When and if computer chess programs are playing at 3000 level at 40/2 that will hardly kill chess. In fact, it will give us a window to analysis that we never had before. Suppose you could get Anand, Kasparov, Karpov and Fisher [Might as well toss in Morphy and Tal] to analyze games for you. You would get some pretty good insigts. You could find holes in approaches and learn about incredible mating combinations that are simply opaque to the normal person. A program like that would make it possible for "Joe on the street" to obtain all of that. And the program is willing to chug along 24 hrs per day, 7 days a week, and does not get grouchy at 3AM. It's sort of like: "Once airplanes can travel 500MPH, no one will want to fly anymore." I should think they will want to fly much more than when they only went 100MPH. Right now, GM's use these programs. Do you think they would even have bothered ten years ago? It would have been a waste of time. Someday, chess programs may advance the game far beyond what we can imagine right now. Perhaps a 1e10 machine hookup over the net will discover some fundamental and remarkable new things. I already have lots of interesting ideas about future directions [well, interesting to me anyway].
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