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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