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Subject: Re: A disturbing pattern

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 04:55:51 01/31/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 20:57:58, Mark Young wrote:

>A common theme has developed in human verses computer matches. We see again as
>with Deep Fritz verses GM Kramnik and Deeper Blue verses GM Kasparov the human
>player playing strong chess at the beginning of the match, seemingly invincible.
>
>Only to succumb to the machine as the match progresses, it seems the wear and
>tear on the human mind even for the best chess players is too much. Even with
>rest days when playing against the never tiring computer. It seems likely if
>this pattern holds for this match that a computer running on a micro computer
>would if given the chance defeat any human player in the world in a world
>championship style format match of 16 or 24 games.

Yes, you are right.  Long matches favor the computer and short matches favor the
human.



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