Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 02:00:36 03/23/03
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On March 22, 2003 at 14:46:08, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On March 22, 2003 at 11:43:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On March 22, 2003 at 11:28:31, George Wilson wrote: >> >>>Now that Computers routinely Destroy top Grandmasters, I think my interest in >>>computer chess has Died. Finally Computers have Arrived at Super Grandmaster >>>Strength, the Future looks bleak for humans, i no longer look up to Human >>>Grandmasters, >> >>Maybe changing the rules may do computer chess more interesting for you. >> >>What is your opinion about a rule that let both sides to take back moves >>3 times during a game when taking back move mean also taking back the times. >> >>I think that it may do 40/2 hours games between computers and humans more >>interesting. >> >>It may be interesting to know how much elo humans may get against computers by >>this rule. >> >>What is your opinion? >> >>Uri > >IMO opening and endgame database usage should be allowed for all human players >in matches against computers first. There were no fair conditions at all in past >man vs. computer matches. >Accepted only because the humans got money for playing against computers. >The rule you suggest is probably also not fair. Computers often cant understand >which move was a mistake. This is necessary to take back moves. I think Kasparov got Deep Junior into some distinctly shaky opening situations using only the database in his head ;) The tablebase suggestions are interesting. But, off the top of my head, _none_ of the 'big' computer versus human games has got into a situation where the current TBs (up to and including 5-man) would've been a factor, so whether they are present or not is probably a minor issue. (Out of interest, a quick search shows that, out of the 3.3 million games I have, just under 14,000 contain a position with no pawns). Alastair
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