Author: stuart taylor
Date: 15:41:55 12/31/03
All the top programs now are staggering compared to some years back, and Shredder 8, and DFritz 8, seem about to be first and second. Even if something else jumps up, like Ruffian or one of the known ones with a great new upgrade, how much can we really expect something to outshine the others any more? We already see that some of the previous greatest programmers, don't make the very top anymore, and there is a decent margin between Shredder, Fritz, and all the others. And it has never yet been seen that a program or human has passed 2850. So it will probably not happen! Certainly not 2900! How could it happen? It would mean that simply no machine or human has a clue as to what to do about that particular program. Let's say that everything was done without all the bug problems, and the best of what is possible, all in one program. The most it might reach might be ....according to ssdf....... 2900. Top humans will still understand things quite a bit better than any machine, but will only need to be very careful and wise. So machines will only be super, beyond human comprehension, in atleast 10 years from now, if other computer potentialities are unleashed, which have not yet been explored. Until then, they cannot surpass 2900, or human understanding. So there's hardly any room left for a new program to be REALLY unimaginable, as had been in the past. OR? S.Taylor
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