Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:39:53 06/12/03
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On June 12, 2003 at 23:23:36, Mark Young wrote: >If it is even right now, 50-50 against the best players. Next year it will be >52-48 for the computers even under your growth rate for chess computer elo. It's not "his" rate of growth. It's Anand's (quoted from the website). >It is clear computers rule the roost. So unless a super Kasparov comes alone, >you will not see any humans beating the best computer chess programs in a fair >contest. Not to say humans will not win a game or two, but the longer the match >the more advantage for the chess computer. That seems to be exactly the opposite of what every expert in the world thinks. Longer time controls, advantage humans. >Could you see a human playing the strongest chess computer under the old World >Championship system...the first player to win 6 games wins the match, draws not >counting. At those time controls, humans are equal or better slightly. At correspondance time controls, humans are clearly better.
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