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Subject: Re: Humans are far superior than computers...

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:40:30 07/15/02

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On July 15, 2002 at 08:10:10, Omid David wrote:

>It's not an 'open question'! as Smirin recently proved, humans are still far
>superior than computers. Kasparov's loss was a terrible bad luck (+ dirty tricks
>on IBM's behalf).
>
>I strongly believe that all chess programs are dump, not being able to see some
>of the obvious positional elements in a position. If a chess program like Junior
>or Fritz loses 5 games in 100 to me (2250 Elo), it means that computers are by
>no means superior to humans. (I certainly won't be able to beat a 2700 Elo Human
>5 times in 100 matches!)
>
>P.S.
>I'm saying this despite my being a chess programmer.

You might change your mind when you become a COMMERCIAL chess programmer with a
product to sell and then suddenly your "baby" is World class player capable of
going toe to toe with kasparov and deep blue is a toy.. :)





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