Author: Angelo Ciavarella
Date: 12:18:05 05/20/03
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On May 20, 2003 at 14:04:48, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 20, 2003 at 11:40:25, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: > >>On May 20, 2003 at 05:14:08, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On May 20, 2003 at 03:14:21, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: >>> >>>>The link below says that the correspondence chess champion can calculate better >>>>than any computer. >>>> >>>>www.uschess.org/cc/alexsept02.html >>> >>>I do not see that claim. >>> >>>By definition computer is faster and can calculate better than any human if >>>humans only write the right program. >>> >>>The only reason that a team of computer and human can do better than a computer >>>is that programmers failed to write the right program. >>> >>>Uri >>If you read the statement half way down the page by two-time U.S.Correspondence >>Champion Stephen Jones, he explains why he can beat a computer in correspondence >>analysis. > >I can only say nonsense about the following sentence: >"You look 10 to 12 moves ahead. The computer's evaluation of the position will >be based only on four to six moves ahead." > >The writer proves that he does not know much about computers becuase my shredder >can get often 20 plies in some hours and 20 plies are clearly more than 4-6 >moves ahead. > >He also does not claim that he without computer can beat the computer. >If the claim is that a team of computer+human can be better than a computer then >I agree with it but I also believe that in lot of cases it is not the case(for >example if the human only use the computer to check the analysis for tactical >mistakes) > >I also believe that there are full games when a good correspondence player does >not need to change the moves of the computer because they are simply the best >moves. > >Uri Steven Busemann,a cc grandmaster, says computers are not much use to a strong cc player.Go to http://cl-www.dfki.uni-sb.de/~busemann/computers.html for a full explanation. Angelo
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