Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:55:01 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 22:33:16, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 16, 1999 at 17:30:14, robert michelena wrote: >[snip] >>However, like the lonely scientist who stated that the world is indeed round, >>and not square, as all those around him cried, I will continue to state what I >>consider to be a fundamental truth: non grandmasters cannot beat commercial >>programs at their strongest settings. >> >>The world is round. > >Been there, done that. Funny, I Don't remember being a GM though. Have to >remember to ask FIDE why they are holding out on me. > > Albert Silver > >The world is flat I tell you. Perhaps we are not giving RM the benefit of the doubt here. Let's look *carefully* at his statement: "I will continue to state what I consider to be a fundamental truth: non grandmasters cannot beat commercial programs at their strongest settings." Now, we will imagine that we have some pretty darn clever IM's facing a computer. What will they fear the most? SHORT TIME CONTROL. Now, let's expand it further. What is the most frightening of all? The shortest time setting of all. So, imagine a computer that can think 3 plies and move in a millisecond. Clearly _against people_ that *is* the strongest setting. Time control of 40/2 or longer is the _weakest_ setting against people. So the computer's _strongest_ setting is probably "game in one second." Since no human can possibly keep up, RM may _in fact_ be right. Surely, he has been harboring this secret thought and will reveal it to us shortly. ;-)
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