Author: emerson tan
Date: 05:51:43 03/23/03
When computers beat all humans, the interest will wane for computers versus humans. It will be hard to get sponsors. The only way to keep it interesting is to change the rules in favor of humans. One rule is to allow the humans to move the pieces on the board so as to avoid visualization blunders like what happened to Kramnik vs Deep Fritz and Kasparov vs Deep Junior. It will also be lest tiring and less lack of confidence for humans if they can move the pieces several moves deep until they are confident of their position. It is not interesting if humans lose due to visualization blunders,under perform due to tiredness or take the draw because of lack of confidence thinking that they will blunder along the way against an opponent that will not blunder even in time pressure. Imagine if humans will be allowed to move the pieces, they will have confidence that they will enter complications and play with the computers head on, the position will become more dynamic that we will have more decisive games. Kasparov might have played on in game 5 if he was allowed to move the pieces. We will have more quality games to replay. With the proposal, it will be the calculating ability of the computer versus the judgment and intuition of the humans, not the calculating ability of computers versus human’s tendency to blunder, get tired or lose confidence. Another good thing about humans being allowed to move the pieces is that it will be more interesting for the TV because you can see what the Grandmasters are thinking. Its much easier to sponsor if its fitted for TV. Maybe giving the humans 2 ½ /hour versus 2 /hour for computers can be suggested for the time to move the pieces and move it back to original position. What do you think?
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