Author: Angelo Ciavarella
Date: 12:23:44 05/20/03
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On May 20, 2003 at 15:18:05, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: >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.How relevant this is today I don't know, since he wrote this in 1996! > >Angelo
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