Author: Howard Exner
Date: 12:42:16 10/03/99
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On October 03, 1999 at 15:23:15, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >There is no doubt in my mind that the best commercial programs are GM strength, >but as Seven of Nine often says in Star Trek Voyager, "That is irrelavent". > >In order for a chess program to become a GM, it must play in norm qualification >tournaments against Human GM's. That won't happen unless Fide suddenly declars >that the programs can be invited to these events, and challenge for these title >& norms like any human. I don't think this would be fair to the Human >professional chess player's who have to eat and sleep, and often base their >tournament chances against other Human player's that they have studied to play, >long & hard. > >On the other hand, If a large company like Mircrosoft or Intel (or you name it), >was sponsoring the event from the beginning, and inviting a group of chess >programs and humans to fight for these norms and titles, then we could soon have >plenty of computer Fide Master's, IM's & GM's. In a way, the AEGON tournament >was the last such event of this type, but with out the Fide sanctioned status. >So of course the question arises - How imported is Fide to us for the credence >we give our human players & chess programs? I don't think FIDE will ever grant the GM title to a computer and to me it is not important that they do. Having the official FIDE title of GM probably does not mean much for gaging the strength of a computer. Deep Blue clearly plays at a GM level, at least in my mind, but will never be referred to as "GM Blue". If a big sponsor organized such an event as you describe I believe a number of todays commercial programs would play on par with the average GM. Today I guess they would perform from 2500-2600 given actual play in tournaments. > >Larry - the chess software addict!
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