Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:14:16 12/17/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 22:55:01, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
Perhaps, but I don't think he quite meant a game in which it was PHYSICALLY
impossible to beat the computer. :-)
Albert Silver
Flat, flat, flat, flat......
>
>Surely, he has been harboring this secret thought and will reveal it to us
>shortly.
>;-)
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