Author: James T. Walker
Date: 18:09:24 06/11/99
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On June 11, 1999 at 20:45:24, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 11, 1999 at 10:33:46, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On June 10, 1999 at 22:54:59, blass uri wrote: >> >>> >>>On June 10, 1999 at 19:20:27, James T. Walker wrote: >>> >>><snipped> >>>>Hello Uri, >>>>Most of the time I agree with you. Sometimes you are way out in left field. >>>>This is one of the left field days in my opinion. The programs are calculating >>>>perfectly logical lines according to what the programmers told them is logical. >>>>I have watched Fritz calculate 12 plies full width and 36 plies selective in a >>>>game/30 time frame. At this time control it plays better than 99.99% of all >>>>humans. Until you can do this I suggest you accept the fact that Fritz >>>>/Junior/Chessmaster/Hiarcs etc. are not as "Stupid" as you like to say they are. >>> >>>They are better than humans only because of the fact that they are faster and >>>have a perfect memory. >>> >>>Uri >> >>OR: They are better than humans because humans are slow and have a poor memory. >>The important point is "They are better" and not stupid. Or, if they are stupid >>then what does that make humans? (Besides their creators) >>Also, they will continue to get better but most of us humans have leveled off >>and will only get worse with failing memories and poor concentration in our >>later years. >>Jim Walker > > >I think what he meant is that there is _much_ room for improvement in the >search... Because present searches search millions of positions to make up >their mind and then lose to a GM that may look at 100 before he chooses a >move... ************** I know, and that's the most encouraging part. People like Uri, and even myself on accasion can see faults in their performance (Computers) which means they have a lot of room for improvement. If I didn't see faults with their search/performance then I would tend to believe that the only thing left is hardware speed. But this is obviously not the case. Jim Walker ***************
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