Author: Albert Bertilsson
Date: 23:10:28 04/16/03
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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" It will always be possible to program the machines in a way to make them interesting to play for humans, there is no reason to believe that future chess programs will be TO strong at the easiest levels, so it will always be possible to play against a computer at an entertaining level. In fact the powerful the programs get, the more possibilties they'll have to emulate playing styles etc, to give more interesting games to the chess player. I hope there will be interest in developing chess programs in the future too, even when the average amature program beats any GM, I belive that this can be true because it will always be interesting to match computers at each other. When chess programs become more and more powerful they can be better chess teachers and help human players train and become better. Computer chess will be really interesting when the programs have so strong tactics that long term planning will introduced to increase the strength (No program I know of has this feature). Many chess programmers work on their programs because it is fun, they wont stop because programs become unbeatable for humans. Chess still provides me with the greatest programming challenge I've ever found, I don't think it will be easy to write a chess engine and as long as the challenge remains many people will continue to develop chess programs. Many humans still play othello and checkers even though strong programs are unbeatly by humans. I've started very recently with this hobby, and I really hope I'm right because otherwise I'll have to find a new hobby and we wouldn't want that to happen? /Regards Albert
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