Author: Paul Richards
Date: 14:11:00 07/02/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 16:25:28, Robert Hyatt 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 > > >I think you are wrong. What is right around the corner is a big hammer, >once the GM players start playing vs the computer's obvious weaknesses. It >will take another 10 years probably to combat such play. And once the GMs >start doing it, we are going to have a difficult time for a while. It is >hard to do at blitz, but at game/30 it is possible, and at 40/2hr games, it >is not hard at all... It may be difficult on a PC just by trying to increase the program's chess knowledge, but I wonder how many anticomputer tricks there are and how long they could be relied upon. Going out of book can be addressed by growing a gigantic analyzed book a la Mr. Corbit's project. A huge book and deep search might obviate the need for a lot of additional knowledge. As it is there haven't been that many 40/2 man-machine games, so total war has not been declared. ;) We've already seen what a determined group of propeller-heads can do to Kasparov with sufficient motivation. ;) I think the programmers would adapt quite well if they had sufficient man-machine game data to work with.
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