Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:44:25 04/18/03
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On April 18, 2003 at 03:49:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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" > >USCF membership has been on the rise for the past several years, despite the >depressing (from a human's standpoint) results of high-profile human-computer >games. > >I don't think computers are any more unbeatable to the average player than they >were 10 years ago. > >-Tom I think the _big_ problem is that computers are _not_ "good teachers". A human expert (USCF 2000) can teach a beginner so much about the game, while the computer just tears his head off and tosses it into a sack. This problem is _years_ away from any real progress... And until it is "fixed" the computers are not going to replace humans at all, in terms of playing chess.
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