From: Larry Kaufman comcast net> Date: 6 mar 2007 Subject: computer vs. human handicap match This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C76031.AE638450 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit By a curious twist of fate, just as computer shogi programs are reaching the level where they can compete with pros without a handicap (as planned for Bonanza shortly), in chess the opposite has just occurred. A match is now taking place in which computer chess program "Rybka" is giving a pawn handicap to a renowned grandmaster (Jaan Ehlvest) in an eight game match, and the computer is leading 3-0! You can either take this as evidence of the superiority of shogi over chess, or as a forecast of things to come in shogi. I think it's not so many years away that a shogi program will spot the Meijin a lance and defeat him. Few could have imagined this would happen in chess, but it has, and shogi will be next. Larry Kaufman, chess International Master and Shogi amateur 5 Dan. --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.aB5TiY.c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^---------------------------------------------------------------- ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C76031.AE638450 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
     By a curious twist of fate, just as computer shogi programs are reaching the level where they can compete with pros without a handicap (as planned for Bonanza shortly), in chess the opposite has just occurred. A match is now taking place in which computer chess program "Rybka" is giving a pawn handicap to a renowned grandmaster (Jaan Ehlvest) in an eight game match, and the computer is leading 3-0!
     You can either take this as evidence of the superiority of shogi over chess, or as a forecast of things to come in shogi. I think it's not so many years away that a shogi program will spot the Meijin a lance and defeat him. Few could have imagined this would happen in chess, but it has, and shogi will be next.
 
     Larry Kaufman, chess International Master and Shogi amateur 5 Dan.
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