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Subject: Re: People vs computers starts tomorrow!!

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 16:17:06 10/05/04

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On October 05, 2004 at 17:12:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 05, 2004 at 14:14:13, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On October 05, 2004 at 11:40:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On October 05, 2004 at 03:25:32, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>Where is all the discussion??
>>>>
>>>>There are different dates for games, but start date seems to be 8.10. And after
>>>>4 days we know the truth about computers playing level.
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>How will we know the "truth" after these games, when we apparently don't know
>>>the "truth" after all the previous human/computer games???
>>
>>
>>What truth are we referring about? My only conclusion is that computers tactics
>>are so strong nowadays that any strategic advantage that the human GM might have
>>over them simply balanced out.
>>
>>
>>Jorge
>
>I have no idea about what "truth" he was talking about.
>
>But the computers are _not_ overwhelming the humans in tactics by any stretch...

YOu can look at that two ways,
1. computers aren't creating or isolating tactical situations and exploiting
them
2. computers will play tactics near perfectly every time, where a human would
not.  So you could almost say they are blowing humans off the board with
tactics.



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