Author: Owen Lyne
Date: 05:35:14 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 08:14:16, Albert Silver wrote: >On December 16, 1999 at 22:55:01, Dann Corbit wrote: >>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. :-) Other problem with Dann's example is that even the GM's wouldn't ever beat the computer. So we need an example which only GM's can do it - and monkeying with the time control just won't cut it. So bin him, he's just a loony troll and I'd not bemoan his removal. Owen
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