Author: Andrew Platt
Date: 05:31:02 10/13/04
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On October 13, 2004 at 06:06:52, emerson tan wrote: >Since computers can play much better than humans, the next team humans versus >team computers, computers should not use opening books. Here's my take. There are obviously fundamental differences between the way that humans and computers play chess. You are never going to get around that. Trying to handicap computers because their method can outplay humans the majority of the time is not right. Nor are time controls that favor computers - though those seem to be dying out a little bit. Removing an opening book from a computer if fundamentally unfair to the silicon thinker. The fact that people help prepare the opening books for computers is not unfair: Their human opponents use computers to help them prepare their openings! In the early days of computer chess it was a question of whether the computers would get strong enough to beat masters. Then IMs. Then GMs sometimes. Now that they have the ascendency we say, "Oh, we need to limit them. They are too strong". It's also a slippery slope. Perhaps they should be limited in search depth because they can see further than humans (there are, of course, cases where a strong human will see further down the critical lines than a computer will)? Soon there will be no human-computer tourneys any more because the machines will simply be too strong. There's obviously debate on when (or if - I have no doubts though) that will happen but, until then, let's enjoy the matches and tournaments we get while there's still a point. Andy.
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