Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 01:09:25 08/05/98
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On August 04, 1998 at 23:19:08, Ed Schröder wrote: >It looks like playing against the world-top (even against 2800 players!) on >blitz and semi-blitz makes no sense anymore. Rebel played 4 blitz games >5:00 plus 5 Fischer seconds increment for each move which makes the >4 games actually 10:00 games. Then 2 games on 15:00. Result 4.5-1.5 >and believe me I never ever expected this to happen. Apparently you have >to play first to find out. > >The same counts for the 2 tournament games. Before the 2 games my >main fear was that Rebel would have been slaughtered, first positional >out-played, then slowly strangled, all in the well known Seirawan style at >Aegon but then even more effective :) I feel the opposite - there's a long way to go for computers to match GMs in every aspect of the game (this is a different goal from beating GMs occasionally OTB, of course). In my opinion, we are still decades away from chess programs that really understand all kind of positions, all stages of the game with the quality of a good GM postmortem analysis. As far as OTB play is concerned, there are numerous examples on ICC and elsewhere where "weaker" players (i.e. unrated or without FIDE title) almost match or even surpass Anand's performance against Rebel. There's still a lot of work to do, a long way to go and hopefully much money for you to earn also in the next millenium ;-) Certainly the task of implementing intelligent coaching features must not be forgotten since this is what the vast majority of customers needs most and hardly gets in any product nowadays. In so far you are perfectly right in giving this a higher priority than maybe 5 years ago where playing strength was even more insufficient than today. Moritz
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