i understand computers are getting better...but so are humans. just look at the top 10 Grandmasters today...i think the winner of the forthcoming World Championship should challange Blitz. After all, the computer cant create and all it would take is Anand or Kramnik to look at the Computers games to see weaknesses.

Wow.  Ok, thanks.

Bowanza, don't know how to put it into play-through mode, but in your fianl position black plays ...Ne4 (threatening check on d2 followed by queening). If white prevents this by Nb3, then a1=Q deflects the knight after which black checks on d2 then queens. He can then round up the remaining white pawns easily.

bowanza - it's because White will get checkmated.

At the end of the second game, white resigned a

gainst fritz.  Why wouldn't have this worked?

all im saying is that this  AI (artificial intelligence) development should have sanctions on it to ensure that is doesnt get extremely out of control. a note on the programing issue- what if we do develop computers equivalent to humans, thinking wise, that have been programed to do some sort of good for mankind... there are those mad scientist out there who thrive on breaking new ground. these will be the scientist who reprogram those same computers to ,say, think for themselves, or something worse. once a "smart" computer is in the network (online) theoretically, it can control all computers on that network. imaging the power of that. although this issue may be far fetched and not upon us yet, it is still a serious possible issue. you wouldnt give a nuke to a terrorist, so why allow unapproved personnel deal with something of this magnitude and capability?

When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

...and what if computers did rule the earth, providing they had human interest at heart (of their programming).  How many deaths would there be through greed, religion, famine etc?  I think a lot less than it is today, certainly not on the scale of the wars and terrorism.  And would a computer allow us to destroy the earth through global warming, nuclear fallout etc?  Perhaps the rule of the computer couldn't come soon enough?

The fiction about computers taking over the world is never going to happen-they wouldn't take over the world because even if they posessed the capability, they would not because they would be programmed to do something other than take over the world for themselves (why would a programmer program a machine to take himself over-the point is that computers only do what they're programmed to do). About the jobs thing-I wonder how many people were employed to engineer the hardware of the pocket PC, and to program Pocket Fritz. Computers will always need people to fix them and make them run, although the concern that they will take over some jobs is well-founded and has to some degree materialized. As is, people will continue to compete against each other at chess even if computers get better than the best grandmasters, just like we average members of this website continue to play even though we are far outstripped by computers (and grandmasters).

strange but true

This sounds too much like the comments to Kasparov vs. Deep Blue...

Computers can play chess pretty well.  They don't enjoy the game.  On the taking of jobs.  Consider all the unemployment the auto should have taken and made massive umemployment as all the people halling goods by hand and horse were displaced.  Farming in 1900-- 60% were farmers now 2% are: so there should be 50% unemployment today.  However people find other things to do many times making life better.  Computers can help like planes, trains and tractors.  Yes computers can play chess better it seems.

Huh, well I think computers are still a long, long, way off being of comparable intelligence to humans.

 

Chess just happens to be the type of game that is well amenable to computer analysis. Getting the programs to have an 'appreciation' of strategy was the hard part; tactical play was always going to be far easier for computers to crunch through. Don't forget these programs play chess, and chess only. They aren't capable of, for example, lifting a (admittedly non-existent) hand to input the moves, nor are they simultaneously running a complex homeostatic biological system. They have no imagination (what that is, is open to debate) and, as yet, little or no concept of selfhood.

 

The rise of the machines has also been a predominant theme of science fiction for the past 60+ years. Scientific regulation is pretty tight, and let's not forget the fact that the people writing these AI programs are themselves extremely smart, so hopefully they are as wary as anyone else.

do you know what i think?!! i think that this computer chess software development is aiding to the computer "equals" human race- which- i think will, once equal, become the downfall of the human race... we have 6.2billion people on this earth. what do you think will happen when 1 billion of those jobs are taken up by computers!...i would guess that more than .5 billion  people are jobless. so what do you think will happen when a computer knows how to do accounting? or teach a science class??? this is a serious this that needs to be controlled before it gets too out of control. And lets not talk about computer development getting completely too out of control where the computer, not the human dominates the earth, because once a computer is smarter than the best human, then he is smarted than us all. computers control/enable networks. we just use them... this issue is millions of times worst than say, human cloning. this  is a survivle  sort of thing.  they can already correct my spelling and i am in the top 15 percent of human kind (I.Q. wise).. what do you think will be the result?

Jeez, a pocket PC completely dominated IM Mareco with Black. That's slightly depressing. Any idea what the specs of the PC were?