Author: Michel van der List
Date: 04:12:32 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 03:56:03, Mig wrote: >What many people fail to understand is that many GMs actively dislike playing >public games, even exhibition games, against computers. There are many different >reasons and few stem from simply not wanting to lose. They lose to other humans >all the time. One is that they don't enjoy the games nearly as much because the >entire psychological element is gone. The exciting competitive drive is >practically irrelevant, you just don't get as juiced up to play a machine. I think this is probably one of the most important comments I have seen here for a while. But the question then becomes, will a GM _ever_ play his/her best game against a computer? Also, I laud KasparovChess (sp?) for trying to put this together, although next time perhaps not trying to have at least three unknowns (geographically distant, internet and computer) together for the first time would help. It would be hard enough to come up with rules for even one of these unknowns, let alone all three. Michel
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