Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 14:02:09 07/02/99
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I don't think the field will shrink...I think it will expand because it will be possible for computers to play in genuinely different styles without making mistakes obvious even to master level players (didn't say grandmaster level players). You can imagine a style that destroys you tactically by following lines especially dangerous to humans, another one that presents you with shallow tactical threats but makes you run out of time, another one that just prolongs the game indefinitely without ever doing anything, and so on. Roger On July 02, 1999 at 14:28:47, James Robertson wrote: >On July 02, 1999 at 14:16:50, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Hello, >>I see the change in strategy by the top GM's in the Frankfurt Masters tournament >>as an admission that they can no longer compete with Fritz on the "up and up". >>Resorting to anticomputer strategy/tactics by the worlds best chess players is >>the first signal that the end is near. Computer domination is just around the >>corner. >>Jim Walker > >Of course it is. Once computers do dominate, the public will lose interest in >them, and I think the computer chess field will shrink to just a few of us >computer nerds. It is ironic that the people who want so hard for computers to >dominate as quickly as possible are actually just moving the date forward when >computers are unable to interest the average chess player. People used to holler >and cheer when there were airplane - auto races. No such thing now, and computer >chess will go the same way. :( > >James
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