Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 07:33:44 10/31/05
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On October 31, 2005 at 10:01:40, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 31, 2005 at 09:47:36, Russell wrote: > >>On October 31, 2005 at 08:12:14, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On October 31, 2005 at 08:03:31, Richard Heldmann wrote: >>> >>>>Hypothetically speaking(don't wish to offend), are programs like Fruit, Shredder >>>>and Fritz running on a standard PC(3 Ghz), IM, GM or SGM class? >>>> >>>>Is the list of chess programs much larger than the three I mention? >>> >>>The list of chess programs is clearly larger than the three that you mention >>> >>>Humans are simply weak at chess and based on results even old ChessTiger14 got >>>good super GM results on slower hardware than 3 ghz. >>> >>>Uri >>Humans are weak at chess? > >All the results that I see prove that humans are weak relative to >computers(otherwise they could easily not let programs like tiger14 to get super >GM result and will not let other programs to win tournaments easily). > >The last human who proved that he is able to beat machines was GM smirin who >beated programs 5-3 some years ago and even in that case I am sure that better >hardware could help the result to be 4-4 because tiger did a mistake and lost >because of not searching deep enough. > >Other humans who played recently matches against strong programs lost and in the >last uear hydra or Zappa had no problem to beat their human opponents. > > >Uri Interesting, but when did Zappa play a strong GM? Did I missed a good match recently? PS: Some programs that performs good against other programs are NOT the strongest program against humans. Jorge
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