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Subject: Re: Engines vs Humans, what's all the fuzz?

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 07:21:34 02/18/00

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On February 18, 2000 at 01:56:30, kurt wrote:

>Allow humans access to opening/end game theory
>as engines do,same as correspondence playing.
>Play normal 40 moves at 120 min and put your
>money on your engines to win - I bet you be broke
>playing against masters,let alone GM's.
>Kurt Widmann
That's not entire true.  Just because the master has access to opening theory,
he/she still have a long way to go before defeating the chess engine in a 40/120
min game.  A master will still have great difficult defeating the chess engine.
You are assuming that a chessmaster is handicapped because he has no access to
opening books, while a chess engine has access to an opening book which is built
into its program.  Well let me ask you this, have you ever met a chess master or
a GM who has not memorized an entire opening repertoire? Really, humans have
long term memory, and all professional chessmasters know their favorite opening
inside out, forward and backward, and just because a chess engine has a book
opening, how can you say that is different. My money would still be on the chess
engine if you pit a chessmaster under 2400 ELO rating in tournament time control
and I can guarantee that the chessmaster will still loose because he will
certainly waste a lot of time browsing his opening book. :)
Laurence




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