Author: George Wilson
Date: 10:09:12 01/31/03
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On January 31, 2003 at 12:54:58, Christopher A. Morgan wrote: >Although the argument will go on, a pattern is emerging that the top chess >programs playing at a relatively modest speed of +/- 3 million nps are near or >at equality with human super grandmasters. This speed is less than 2% of the >speed of Deep Blue II in its match with Kasparov in 1997. > >After 15 recent games of super GMs versus three different programs the score is >equal (Kramnik-DF (8), Bareev-Hiarcs X(4), and Kasparov-DJ(3)). The human >players are the number 1, 2 and 8 players in the world with an average ELO of >2794 (January 2003 FIDE ELO list). > >Although, statistically, 15 games are not enough to come to a definitive >conclusion, it appears clear that insofar as playing humans (meaning the very >top chess playing humans) the machines will, within a relatively short time, >decisively win every match with humans. It has taken the machines a very long >time to get to where they are today. It is still incredible to me that humans >are still competitive in what is essentially a game of calculation. Human >intelligence is extraordinary. You forgot to also add the incredible result of Century 4 against Van Wely, Century Drew the Four game match, running on very modest hardware xp1800+
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