Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 02:16:10 10/16/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 01:55:52, Mark Young wrote: >I am still in shock how such great players as GM Kramnik, and GM Kasparov fail >when it comes to playing computer chess programs. I for one think computer >programs play at a very high level, but some of this stuff the programs get >handed to them border on the mystical!!! > >Out right blunders. >Resigning drawn positions. >Forgetting move order in opening theory. > >All done by the 2 best players in the world when playing computer programs. > >18 hours of studing these game is enough for me, back to work tomorrow. I probably form the minority opinion that this is _not_ surprising because of the strangeness of the situation. I played a computer once over-the-board at a congress at tournament time limits, and it was most disconcerting when the person sitting opposite you was _not_ deciding on the moves and was, essentially, an automaton responding to a small beeping box rather than a person. This was about 12 years ago and the computer was weak, but winning took a long time and I made heavy weather of it even though, even then, I had much experience of computers. Also, the points other people made that computers make different, more subtle, types of error from humans, and that many gross errors in human-human games are missed by both players and never picked up, is certainly valid. Alastair
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