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

Author: Omid David

Date: 08:29:57 07/15/02

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On July 15, 2002 at 09:40:30, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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.. :)

When I become a commercial chess programmer, I hope no one remembers my current
comments ;-) But that won't mean they aren't true!



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