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Subject: Re: Today's chess programs are trivial opponents for master players

Author: Paulo Soares

Date: 04:01:18 01/30/99

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On January 29, 1999 at 23:09:04, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>That is a quote from Earl Hunt from 1975.  Eliot Hearst in "Chess Thinking: Man
>versus Machine" in 1976, states that " A computer chessmaster or expert is not
>likely to emerge in the near future."  His final statement was more revealing;
>" Perhaps our chances of success in producing a computer chessmaster in the
>twentieth or twenty-first century depend on how much more "man" we can put back
>into the machine--but this time in psychological rather than physical form."
>
>Now we are in the same position in 1999.  This time we are not saying that the
>machines can't play at master level but instead can't really compete at the
>human grandmaster level.  Dr. Hyatt has stated this in a related post.
>
>The more you say that something can't be done, the more you will have people
>trying to do it. I predict that we will have chess computers similar to stand
>alone units today that can beat Kasparov at 40/2 within the next 25 years.  At
>that point we will give up trying to beat the machines and just bumble along and
>enjoy a nice friendly ga



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