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Subject: Re: Chessprograms better then humans in e-mail games?

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 15:35:03 12/18/99

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On December 18, 1999 at 10:04:13, Alvaro Rodriguez wrote:

>Hi, all!
>
>I´ve been thinking, are the chessprograms better then humans in e-mail games?
>I´ve talked to several people that says that the programs plays equal or even
>better then FIDE titled players. Is that true? My opinion is probably that
>programs are inferior then titled humans, maybe even average, because they have
>a hard time finding a long plan that works.
>
>It should be interesiting to hear what people thinks about this topic.
>
>Best Regards to everyone,
>
>Alvaro


With plenty of time to think, the human player can avoid the tactical mistakes
that are so typical in shorter time control games.  This makes it more or less a
contest of positional knowledge, and computers are still pretty weak in this
area.

My money would be on any human player rated over 2200.

--Peter



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