Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 22:42:58 02/14/99
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On February 14, 1999 at 19:36:44, Jeffrey Azajar wrote: >Dear Sir/Madam: > I’m Jeffrey Azajar, a 4th year high school student at Phil. Cultural High >School, Manila, Philippines. I’m presently conducting a research paper about >"Chess: Man vs. Computer". If its okay with you, pls. answer the ff. questions >and also pls. write your name, designation, and address. > >1. Are you playing chess in your computer? (Yes or No) Yes, I use my chess engines as my sparring patners > >2. What is the computer chess’ name? (i.e. Chessmaster 6000) CM6000, Fritz 5.32, Junior 5. > >3. How many times did you win and how many times did you lose? Give the ratio >of your wins and loses. I've beaten at least once all my chess engines in slow time control. I drew a lot of games against CM6000, so it is very difficult to give a precise win/lose ratio against all the chess engines I play. The chess engines definitely have a the win/lose ratio in their favor for now. In speed chess, I've not won yet, except against freeware chess engines. > >4. Which for you is more intelligent in terms of chess based from your >experience, man or computer? Why? I think man is more inteligent than computers, the same principle applies when pilots fly the airplane, although most of the flight is done by the computer, still the human is needed in case of something bizarre and very unexpected occurs which the computer will not be able to solve. Besides, you have not defined the meaning of "intelligence" which can have different meaning depending on the point of view taken, if you take problem solving equals intelligence which is debatable. > > >5. Computers can now analyze more than a million ways in just a second and most >likely > a man will be beaten by the computer, does this mean that recent computer chess >are > far more intelligent than man? Just because Deep Blue beaten Kasparov does not prove that computers have solved the mystery of chess and explain all the moves. Unlike checkers which has a world reigning chess engine running on a normal PC and defeated the World Checkers Champion quite easily, I don't think that computers will ever be able to solve all the mystery of the chess game. Although chess is a finite game, it is also very dynamic, that is the system is dynamic, so that's why it is very difficult to come up with a definite solution. The same is about the theory of light which still being debated among physists worldwide. Is light a particle (matter) or energy? > > >6. Do you think that in the future chess tactics and techniques can be solved >completely by computers that even a grandmaster could not beat anymore the >computer because it already know what and where to move the pieces? Most unlikely, I see that you are took this question based on checkers. Yes the reigning checker's engine uses a database very similar to a tablebase which has all the best moves stored. So the human player playing checkers against this checker engine which runs on a normal PC will win and crush the human player. However this is not true with chess because chess is dynamic, chess is energy, and there are a lot of unexplored openings in the game. > > >7. Do grandmasters or international chess masters play chess with their >computer and were beaten by them? Yes, I.M. Dean Hergott was defeated by Hiarcs 6 and Hiarcs 7, GM Yusupov was defeated by Rebel 10, so was GM Anand. And a lot of GM uses chessbase database and they certainly use either Fritz 5 or Junior 5 as their engine with the database to analyse their games. > >8. For you what kind of opponent do you most prefer in playing chess, a man or >a > computer, why? A human player because it is more fun to play against, and you get to see your opponents make facial expressions when facing a difficult position. Computers lack soul and they certainly cannot be bluffed. So where's the fun. > > >Thank you for your help. I will very much appreciate it. > > Sincerely yours, > Jeffrey
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