Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 10:00:37 08/16/99
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>I read that Chinook won a match of 70 games some years ago 2:1 and 67 draws. > The history of Chinook is at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/. I didn't see anything about 2:1 (=67), maybe that was against a weaker player. In 1992 match, Tinsley won 4:2 (with 33 draws). In 1994 they played again, but Tinsley fell ill after 6 draws, withdrew from the match and died few months later from cancer. >It is surprising to hear that the top human player is at age 65. >I think that something like this never happen in chess and the best player is always younger than 65. Lasker played quite well in later years. But it is rare, at least for the world champion (the great players still remain quite strong). Since the raw calculation speed decreases with age, the Tinsley and Lasker examples show that there is more to the top level play in chess & checkers than a raw computation of tactics. (Of course, anyone playing chess seriously knew that anyway.)
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