Author: George Sobala
Date: 10:30:12 01/31/03
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You wrote: > >Difference is that computers play at their best, tactically speaking, all the >time and humans don't. You agree with me. >The fact that humans can find "profound tactical tricks >that the current programs cannot" does not mean that they can find them in >standard 120/40 games (those which the computer won't find that is). >That's another difference, computers seem to need much less time to find >tactical blows than the human GM's. I completely disagree, through my own observation of the phenomenon. > >BTW do you have any examples at hand, where GM's find these "profound tactical >tricks that the current programs cannot" ? > >Regards >Jonas Just open your eyes. All the time! Just go through a few famous annotated World Championship-level games using your favourite engine and see how it fails to analyse the positions adequately within "real-time". Take the Nolot EPDs as an easy-to-download example but similar sacs and positions are frequent. The GMs came up with these ideas over the board in actual play, ok the comps can "solve" some of them but only after running all night. I am deeply interested in computer chess, I wrote my own program in Fortran 24 years ago (source totally lost, alas <g> ) and I own half-a-dozen commercial chess engines, as well as the best free ones. I use them all the time when examining or observing top level chess. I run a (C) account on ICC. I kibitz gratuitous computer evals during broadcast games. I am therefore firmly in the "computer camp". It nevertheless repeatedly astonishes me how people seem to believe that just because DJ is tied with Kaspy in this match, it has done so by playing equally "good" chess. I find it hard to credit that such comments can be made by anyone who has actually watched the game (especially if comparing live engine v GM analysis) rather than merely going by the result.
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