Author: Larry S. Tamarkin
Date: 06:27:06 09/17/98
If I had the means, I would set up a tournament of 6 or 10 human GM's who are all known to be good at beating (well at least playing), computers, or who have a lot of experience against them. 1.Kasparov 2.Anand 3.Benjamin 4.Bronstein 5.Rohde and 6.Gulko come to mind for example. They would play, lets say a tournament at G/90, versus the same number of computers. But none of the players or machines would be able to see each other. All of the computers would have human aliases, so that all of the players would think it was an all human tournament. But the aliases would only be for name purposes, they would not make any of the moves, only the programs. Of course I would like to have Kasparov in this event as he has repeatedly stated that he can pick out a computer opponent (cheater), in a few moves. Only the organizers (scientist), would know who was playing who in any particular round. After the tournament was over we would find out several things; 1. Who was better at this time control, Machine or Man 2. Which humans could pick out potentially what computer's were involved by interviews after the games - 'Speelman made a lot of moves that were unlike his usaul style - today he played like a machine!', might be a typical GM comment after the game. Did I mention that all of the players would be led to think that they were playing their usaul opponents in International play? 3. If any of the human players could pick out the computer's, would they be able to identify the programs name(s)? 4. How would the GM's do with their normal opening choices agaisnt the computers, as at least in the early rounds they would think they were playing against other human Grandmasters who they had previous knowledge of. 5,6,7, ect... Other stuff I'm missing! Lawrence S. Tamarkin mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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