Author: margolies,marc
Date: 21:48:32 04/16/03
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chess players are addicted to winning. it gives them a serotonin rush. So it is not relevant to these players if they can't beat some silicon under some circumstances. No one will cower at the possibility of losing unless it is a very official match. No one needs to even know when we lose to a machine. any severe application of the logic proffered by you might be a good excuse to avoid doing anything, so why chose chess for your example? "war games,"the old movie you cited was about the cold war, nuclear war. a more current computer simulation this summer in germany, the most expensive game designed in military history, resulted in america's war plan in asia. therefore I do not think your question is about computer chess. Perhaps your question is about pessimism and if so, we can take it to the other board. On April 17, 2003 at 00:35:03, andrew tanner wrote: > I was wondering if people have come to the general consensus that computers >are increasingly becoming unbeatable and consequently the game may soon be >losing interest and support except for the famed "man v machine" contest. Of >course there will always be enthusiastic support from hobbyists, I am referring >specifically about the masses. > Here is a typical scenario: A child plays his best friend and wins, then >proceeds to return home to his playstation where he gets clobbered even on the >easy levels by the tireless machine. Being a precocious youngster, he concludes >that "the only way to win is not to play" - excerpted from the movie "war Games"
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