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Subject: Re: Always hope for humans?

Author: Côme

Date: 06:25:02 02/15/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 08:53:27, blass uri wrote:

>On February 15, 2000 at 07:16:12, Côme wrote:
>
>>On February 15, 2000 at 06:16:27, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>On February 15, 2000 at 05:51:31, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I wonder if it will eventually be discovered that chess is not absolute,
>>>>and that a human will therefore always be able to beat a machine by playing
>>>>exactly against the weaker points of that particular machines style-everything
>>>>else being to perfection?
>>>>  Maybe chess isn't an exacting art-absolutely?
>>>>    Stuart Taylor
>>>
>>>If the machine has no weak points then it is impossible to play exactly against
>>>the weaker points of the machine and there is no reason to assume that it is
>>>impossible to do a machine with no weak points.
>>>
>>>Today there is no machine with no weaks points and there is no machine that can
>>>pass the turing test(every machine can do positional mistakes that I do not
>>>expect humans even with 1800 elo rating to do) but it is practically impossible
>>>for most of the humans to play exactly against the weaker points of the machine
>>>because you cannot go practically to the positions that the machine does not
>>>understand.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Hello Uri,
>>I don't agree with you Uri !
>>It's not so hard to play against weaks points of machine !
>>Best Regards
>>Alexandre Côme
>
>Hello Alexandre,
>If it is not so hard then what is the reason that these machines can beat more
>than 99% of the humans with rating above 1600?
>
>There are positions when the machines are stupid and humans knows about them(for
>example programs do not understand fortress positions when one side has a big
>material advantage) but you usually cannot go for these position in
>a practical game.
>
>Uri

Hello Uri,
Ok you must be stronger than 1600 to play against weaks points of machines. :-)
There are really a lot of positions when the machines are stupid and IMHO
machines will not be never stronger than humans.
Best Regards
Alexandre Côme






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