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Subject: Re: humans vs comps

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 09:46:33 11/04/03

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On November 04, 2003 at 12:14:51, jefkaan wrote:

>there's still something fundamentally missing in
>'artifical intelligence " software, and
>that's (human) intelligence (intuition).
>Yesterday played with yace against a new account
>on Fics, 'youmustbeapro' and he just whipe
>yace out without any difficulties;
>yes i had some flaws then in my book,
>and the guy (when chatting afterwards)
>confirmed to me that books are getting
>more important in chess; yet this
>bloke hat no difficulty at all memorizing
>the relavant lines (at 2/3 speed!) and beeting
>the hell out of Yace on a 2500 Hz machine.
>
Jefkaan,

I have had similar circumstances on two sites.  I played a "centaur" on
Playchess twice and it was no contest, he cleaned my clock and also was a very
nice person.  ICC has two very strong "centaur" types Lat1 and Workuta in the
"C" accounts.  I believe the latter is a titled IM and let me tell you, they are
very difficult to beat if at all.  They are all a pleasure to play, all seem to
be gentlemen and since I am not a "points" whore I don't care if I lose at all!
Could only manage a draw with Kiriakov using CM 9000 @ ~ 45 mins some time ago.
He is also a very good anti-computer GM.

Unfortunately many accounts on Playchess are sissies because they want to
protect their points and won't play some of these "centaur" type accounts.  I
guarantee you that it is a pleasure to watch them destroy my Shredder program.
All games were at least 20 10 and longer.

Was asked on another site about the possibility of playing an undisclosed GM for
promotion and of course I would like to.  It is alleged this GM is Anand
.......... but I don't know.  Unless I can get on another stronger computer he
will destroy me on my P3 1000mx and probably will do so anyhow on any other
computer I can use........

For the life of me I cannot figure why all the recent GM/Program exhibitions
were drawn if my games are any indication.  Must be my weak hardware, opening
book or the big multi-processor machines used by Chessbase.  I don't
know.........

DHM



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