Author: Pedro Gomes
Date: 13:46:37 10/12/04
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On October 12, 2004 at 09:07:52, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >This is an old topic of mine which caught my interest with the ugly >International Championship in Holland where FRITZ participated because CHESSBASE >was a sponsor of the event. I dont want to repeat the details but somehow I had >the impression that programmers like Stefan Meyer-Kahlen and also many other >writers in CCC showed a bit a lack of respect towards the international GM. > >Years have gone and the chessprograms became stronger also due to the huge human >input into the creating of good opening books and the endgame tables. But the >worst development for human players is the meanwhile enormous depth they must be >aware of in their calculations. Sure - the depth is so deep because of selective >tricks, but in a short time and over a whole game a human brain certainly could >find some holes on the side of the computer depth but the masters themselves are >unable to play absolutely without "visible" faults, visible to the machines at >least. > >So basically it's now mainly a test for the exactness of the calculating of the >masters because only seldom they can exloit the strategical blindness of the >machines. This could only function better IF the masters could adopt the typical >anti-computer play. But this is impossible to do for them because that would >spoil the fun of the whole game of chess. It would be a lame and painful >reduction of the beauty of chess towards primitive exploitation of the machine's >typical blindness. I write it once again for all those who doubt it. A human GM >will even play 'his' moves against stupid beginners although he could win with a >couple of tricks in 10 moves. Mr. Tueschen Why do you think that beginners (in chess) are stupid ? And when the ELO rating system was established as definitive inteligence test ? El Pedro
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