Author: Martin Slowik
Date: 06:16:52 07/07/05
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On July 07, 2005 at 07:05:35, Steve B wrote: >but chess was considered a thinking game >i do not consider the now certain dominance of the dreaded PC silicon deformed >monster in chess as a blow to mankind so much as a blow to the game of chess > >in the future how interesting is it to watch two humans play,when in the >backround computers are annotating each move showing all of the mistakes move by >move? > >it makes the game bewteen the humans look rediculous ..at least for me > >like watching two monkeys in a cage trying to figure out how to work a bell with >a button to press :)) Maybe men and monkeys are not that different... I think you're right that chess will never be the same as before. But, I don't believe (or hope) that it will destroy the game of chess. Look, people are even playing stupid puzzles as Sudoku: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku even though there are programs which can solve it instantly. >>On the oter hand I find it astonishing that humans can >>build machines (dedicated chess computers) which are capable of calculating 200 >>million nodes in a second... > >perhaps >but building machines is not something i watch or follow for enjoyment and >relaxation > >i could also watch two computers in my office solve 1000 mathematical >computations and wager on who will be the first to solve it >:)) :)) Watching computers play each other may be fun anyway (even you did it with Resurrection lately if I recall right). >let them build computers to solve the problems of cancer and world hunger or >even terrorism and let them leave chess and other games alone Alas, the latter is easier than the rest as we sadly see these days... Sigh Regards, Martin > > >Luddite Regards >Steve
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