Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:07:27 04/30/99
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On April 30, 1999 at 18:48:30, Mark Young wrote: >On April 30, 1999 at 18:27:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>A computer will be a GM when they pass exactly the same stringent tests as a >>human GM. That means performance ratings at a contest and establishing all the >>GM norms, etc. One victory over a player does not mathematically demonstrate >>anything except the outcome of a single experiment. >> >>However, all that having been said, I suspect that computers are a lot stronger >>than I formally thought they were. It is not inconceivable that some programs >>on the right hardware are at GM strength. >> >>To extrapolate that caliber from a single match is not repsonsible. > >So when are you sending off your protest letter to FIDE for treating GM programs >as second class chess players. You want the chess programs to pass exactly the >same stringent tests, yet you know this will never happen. I don't see many >invites for computer programs by fide to play in all the tournaments so they can >pass exactly the same stringent tests. Any mathematically equivalent basis would be equally acceptable. Note: "A GM lost a match to a computer." is not a mathematically equivalent basis. ;-)
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