Author: ludicrous
Date: 01:09:16 10/12/02
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Yes, I agree. A program like HIARCS or even Chess System Tal (!) would cause tremendous headaches for humans, because of their method of coming up with moves. Just a thought... Shredder is undoubtedly very strong in Comp-Comp chess, but relatively easier for humans to defeat compared to "Fast Searchers" like Junior (Junior has been unbeaten against humans in serious play for two years now). My personal opinion: Maybe shredder's chess knowledge, or chess knowledge for that matter, when used by a computer in fights between other computers, would bring tremendous results. There is no need to jam-pack the computer with Petrosian's Positional Understanding...just a enough would bring good results for a pc against computer opposition. It is my personal thought is this: in the realm of computers, chess knowledge was in the background and number crunching was the main weapon. Introduction of the use of chess knowledge ruffles every program up, and he who uses knowledge will have success. But when the same program uses its "just enough" knowledge against HUMAN opposition (say, Kramnik, who has tons of chess knowledge), it shows its inferiority. When computers use something which is not their primary forte (Knowledge), they will find it hard to match their knowledge with that of a human player. But if a computer uses its primary forte (speed), then humans will find it hard to match tactics for tactics with computers.
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