Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 14:35:19 01/30/03
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On January 30, 2003 at 15:35:18, Charles Roberson wrote: > > Many times masters claim a program is lost and then the program pulls through > just in time. The masters claim that they relaxed and did not play correctly > to pull off the win. I've seen this happen many times. My program has beaten > masters, an SM and one GM occasionally. I believe that certain "lost > positions" are just beyond the current understanding of chess. > > Humans have evolved their chess skill over time to a considerable degree. > I think the human level of chess understanding is approaching a > quantum jump. Computers are pushing the GM's to reassess their chess. > > Dr. Max Euwe wrote a book published in 1966 and republished in english > in 1968. The title is "The Development of Chess Style". In this book, Euwe > argues that each human learns in the same progression has humanity has > learned. Also, he delineates the stages of development thus showing the > quantum jumps in human chess understanding. I believe that computers are > pushing humans to learn more. Too many times computers "get lucky". > > The book delineates these stages: > 1) The days of Grecko 1600?-1634? -- elaborate piece excursions. > 2) The discovery of pawns -- Philidor,1726 - 1795 > 3) Long live the combination -- Anderssen, 1818 - 1879 > 4) Combination for Strategic ends -- Morphy, 1837 - 1884 > 5) Positional play -- Steinitz, 1836 -- 1900 > 6) Technique and Routine -- The Virtuosi, 1900 - 1914. > Here he discusses Capablanca and others of the period > 7) The independent thinkers -- 1919 - 1940 > 8) New thirst for battle -- the russian school: 1945 to Present day > (1966). > > There was the time of the Karpov-Kasparov matches where most GM's would > say that the play was vastly ahead of their own. But before that, there > was Fischer. He would dissapper from chess and study. Then he would come > back stronger than before. In fact, during the world championship > qualifiers -- Fischer shut out his first match opponent. The russian > government took away the man's master title, because no GM can shut out > another thus he must not be a GM. Fischer went on to shut out his next > opponent as well. The russians gave their man his GM title back. > > So, there have been several improvements in human chess understanding over > time and there have been atleast two quantum jumps since the 1960's. I > beleive we are about to see another. This time the driver is a the > unconventional play of computers. > > Charles Looks like Kasparov goofed, but perhaps he can recover. Roger
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