Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:47:04 01/06/03
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On January 06, 2003 at 12:49:56, Graham Laight wrote: >Human chess is all about pattern recognition. Computers achieved their strength >though sheer speed. How do you know it? I suspect that part of the advantage of the commercial programs may be detecting some patterns. > >I doubt if there's time to do computer chess the correct way now - by the time a >pattern recogniser would be able to get up to the required strength, all games >will be a draw (this will happen at about 3500 elo - see >http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/ratings/Draws.jpg . Moreover, Rudolf Huber has >proven that there's no forced win in the first 30 moves. IMO, it is proven >beyond reasonable doubt (though not actually 100% proven) that there's no forced >win in ANY number of moves - chess is a draw). There are still many years to see all the games drawn at tournament time control. Even correspondence players do not draw every game inspite of massive use of computers by both sides. It means that even if the hardware becomes 50 times faster you are not going to be a draw death of computer chess at 120/40 unless you see some improvements in software. Uri
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