Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:53:22 07/06/99
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On July 02, 1999 at 17:11:00, Paul Richards wrote: >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. Don't forget the 'math'. 99.9999999999999% of opening theory does _not_ follow moves like 1. a3 or 1. h3. So if a GM starts out like that, then the computer is going to be on its own. And there is no way to make a book wide enough to cover that...
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