Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:30:53 06/28/05
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On June 28, 2005 at 16:28:10, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2476 > >See under "reactions" , this excerpt : > >"But no matter what the result, and no matter what the result of a rematch, we >are clearly facing, very soon, a situation in which man vs machine Chess, as we >currently know it, is no longer of any spectator interest, because soon the time >will come, if it has not already arrived, when the gladiator will always be >eaten by the lion. What then? > >In my opinion the answer is simple – odds games. When the strongest human payers >have no chance at even games, let us give the human pawn odds. > >At the present time this would allow the very strongest human players to make a >plus score against the programs, but this could perhaps be mitigated by speeding >up the games. > >There is, undoubtedly, some rate of play, whether it is an average of 2 minutes >per move, or 1 minute, or 30 seconds, at which pawn odds would be a fair match. >As programs become stronger still, the rate of play could be slowed down, >eventually reaching, say, 3 minutes per move (on average). > >When the best programs of the day can give the world's strongest human player >pawn odds at 3 minutes per move, we simply increase the odds to two pawns and >reduce the rate of play again." It will be machine verses machine that is interesting. And human verses human.
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