Machines slowly invading human chess masters

@wurrmed (177)
Philippines
January 24, 2007 8:32pm CST
It became popular when Kasparov, the reigning wolrd chanpion faced Deep Blue on 1996. The supergrandmaster, however won with the score of 4-2. The following year, the machinewas upgraded and for the first time the machine defeated the reigning world chess champion (Kasparov) with the score 3.5–2.5. Just this November - December 2006, reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik was defeated by Deep Fritz with a score of 4-2. Kramnik never won a single match. Do machines have better chess moves than humans?
5 responses
• Philippines
4 Apr 10
True that computers have made a visible scar to the human ideal of being the greatest in the field of chess. Yet the human glory never ends there. While computers can be super accurate with moves they still have some blaring flaws and it takes more time for them to defeat a strong human player. If computers win against humans it will serve as a challenge and not as a let down since only by taking challenges that we improve.
• Singapore
22 Feb 10
Definitely, machines are able to collect and consolidate a lot of moves within seconds whereas humans can't really predict that many moves at one go and human are fallible. Even the greatest chess player of the world can make mistakes and once that mistake is made, machine can easily take advantage of it and win easily. The only way to win against machines is to come up with new moves that machines didn't register.
@efreddy (250)
• Belgium
10 Jun 07
On http://www.chessmaniacs.com you could see an opening that Fritz 9 or any other engine couldn't handle ,it was very amazing that a chessengine with a rating of +3100 ELO points had such a terrible position on move 18 to a human player with a rating of 2163 ELO points while the human player played without his queen on move 7. A chessengine that's very fast is out of his book could have problems very soon. Chess engines play different chessmoves then humans but that doesn't mean they are better,the fact that they have no fear could lead sometimes to terrible positions,sometimes they showed us that there's no need to the fear we have on some positions.
@efreddy (250)
• Belgium
27 Apr 07
The fact that machines have made a lot progress the last years means that a human and machine to another human and machine could be very popular in correspondence chess ,that was something that ex world champion Kasparov has predicted more then 10 years ago,in this game the human who played chess with his machine to another human with his machine plays in that game the important role,the difference is that every people now with a machine has a perfect trainer in this correspondence chess ,not only players like Kasparov ,Kramnik . But even that Kramnik never won a single match to a machine,there is little chance that the machine could hold it in correspondence chess against Kramnik and a machine.
@efreddy (250)
• Belgium
4 Apr 07
I can still remember the time that I was able to win to a chess computer very easily though they had more ELO rating then me ,the strongest of the machine was his tactic play they say on that moment,but I was tacticly better. Now I'm still able to win a game but I have then lost maybe already more then 20 games before,it's still possible to win a game but the possibility of winning a game is very low. The machine have more possibility to count a lot of moves then before,have a good openingbook ,they won't get tired,it's very difficult to beat them nowadays and I'm very glad when I could play 1 game that I'm not loosing to it.(even when I have lost a lot of games before)