Author: Louis Fagliano
Date: 09:12:24 04/17/03
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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" Here's one scenario: People will still want to play chess and there will still be professional GM's even if computers become invincible, but they will be used as the authoritative reference of analysis. A chess informant or an ECO volume in the year, say, 2020 will no longer have the symbols ± or ∞ at the end of an opening line but instead an evaluation number and program name such as Fritz 15, -0.31.
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