Author: George Tsavdaris
Date: 14:19:07 09/28/05
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On September 28, 2005 at 16:24:56, adam wilks wrote: >Its logical to think that computer programs will get stronger gradually as time >progresses. I’ve done this "deep blue test" of 1996/7 numerous times on a >desktop pc with shredder 8/9,Hydra, Hydra?????? >Fritz and Chessmaster 10k settings. If >tested on default settings most programs will chose stronger lines and not >consider alot of the Deep Blue moves as "search techniques" have improved. This >is not to say Deep Blue didn’t have a search feature. It did. On the contrary, >Deep Blue was predominantly a "brute force" approach to chess. > >Furthermore, this "brute force" approach has become less prominent as >programmers adopt highly sophisticated/selective search techniques. Time acts as >a "technological hardware cut-off" in computer chess when more knowledge can be >implemented in to chips like Hydras FPGA chips or via software as compilers are >alot faster, debugging easier than 10 yrs ago as there’s more knowledge to refer >to. I think pda testing is the future as its portable and like carrying a >grandmaster in your pocket. Take Pocket Fritz`s draw with Michael Adams a few >yrs ago in Mainz. If a Pocket Pc can draw a grandmaster then what’s the point of >Hydra playing Adams? Lastly, Hiarcs 9.50a on a Tungsten T3 has beaten two high >2600 grandmasters. People finally recognize Machines annihilation of man on the >board, will it be 10 yrs when the average pocket pc will be two pawns up by move >30? Does that mean by the time im 22 Hiarcs will be one pawn up by move 15? > >Man can only win by: > >1. Computer programming was banned this month so "humans can try to catch up >with their own creations". (Highly unlikely as its human instinct to go where no >one else has gone). > >2. Or, everyone started reading Ernest F Pecci`s book "A Psychiatrist matches >wits with Fritz" and learning “quiet” moves. This will be no problem for future versions of computers........ > >I wish that within the next 50 yrs there will be a "normal" group of >grandmasters like today >but also another "normal" group whom specialisze in >beating chess programs/dedicated computers whom recieve equal credability and >accolades as chess GMs` whatever that may currently be. You can continue dreaming.........:-)
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