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Subject: Re: Next comp vs humans, comp should not use book

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 06:04:40 10/13/04

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On October 13, 2004 at 08:40:57, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On October 13, 2004 at 08:31:07, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On October 13, 2004 at 07:42:24, Ingo Bauer wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Fischer mentioned before that he plays against computers with opening book
>>>>disabled cause the opening book is made by man.
>>>>
>>>>Its also interesting to see how the computer navigate the opening using purely
>>>>engine. It is also interesting to see humans play against the computers which
>>>>does not play book and we will have an unfamiliar position in less than 10
>>>>moves.
>>>>
>>>>Get rid of the tablebases also. The ability to tire on human part and the
>>>>ability to blunder is already a big disadvantage to humans.
>>>
>>>
>>>I completly agree and want to make an extension to that proposal: All humans
>>>should be lobotomized to lose the knowledge about opening they did not invent.
>>>Then we would have a equal match!
>>>
>>>Bye
>>>Ingo
>>
>>Human have to think during openings, they don't look up moves in a list. If
>>computers created their own opening book completely by their own learning, then
>>we would have an equal match. :-)
>
> So we must forbit human GM's and generally all chess players to read chess
>books. They should not have the right according to this logic, to learn
>something that they have not created with their own learning........

I repeat, humans use their brain to make their opening moves. They do not look
at chess books during the game to make a move. Human memory is open to mistakes.
Computers with opening books, on the other hand, do not think during the
opening, they are picking moves from a list.

Regards
Dave



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