Author: steven blincoe
Date: 07:28:18 06/20/03
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> >> >>You do not understand. >> >>People do not buy chess engines to play against them. >>They have other reasons(for example watching the engines play against other >>engines). >> >>Uri > > > Reasons can differ I think. I buy chess engines mainly to play against them. > And use for analyses. One of my friends uses the engines for opening training - > i.e. he prepares an opening and plays 10 30 min games in this particular > opening. Then analyses the games of course. > > Sune playing against the computer seems to me to be the only interesting or valid reason to constantly upgrade i am not sure exactly the importance or even the interest in seeing one PC program play another? i am also not certain what we even learn from this? for me the importance of computer chess only has relevance as it relates to how it translates to play against humans i think the chess software companies would go out of business with my opinions whereas now they thrive because people will constantly upgrade just to see one program with version 8.432 play against another program with version 12.6654 let us remember, Computer chess was orinially intended as an AI experiment to perhaps learn something about human intelligence the forefathers of computer chess(Shannon,Turing,Michie,etc)i think would be very amused at this rushing out to buy one program after the next to play them against each other how one program plays against another has no relevance or interest to me how they play against humans however is very interesting to me Steve
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