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Subject: Re: Of chess engines and chess knowledge

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 13:58:30 07/11/03

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Hello,

I just tried to remember that chess is much more
than calculating.
Have you ever wondered why 99% of engine-engine matches (with longer time
controls) are pure boredom? (Just try it without opening books...)

Mihaly



On July 11, 2003 at 16:23:59, Ingo Bauer wrote:

>Hi
>
>>We talk a lot about chess programs beating each other and
>>grandmasters, even reching 2800 Elo (gasp), but when will
>>we meet a chess engine which can 'understand' the position
>>below? I can explain it to a 10 years old child and he/she
>>will grasp it...
>
>The position is nice and easy to understand 4 a human (thx 4 that) but why is
>there allways these "undertone" that is saying "These monsters are just stupid,
>there will allways be something that they never can find".
>
>I would like to see a self running computer searching games of the great
>players, looking for mistakes of them (and there are quite a few!). After the
>computer has found something it should publish these positions in a forum saying
>something like "Look at these humans. They claim to be geniuses but this mistake
>would even an average amateur engine never do ... and btw the human opponent
>missed that oportunity to win the game. These humans will do mistakes forever
>..."
>
>:-)
>
>Ingo



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