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Well, I think the last time computers played the world chess champion (in 2006), they didn't allow the computer to think on the human time! And you can always
by 21 11y ago
Well, I think the last time computers played the world chess champion (in 2006), they didn't allow the computer to think on the human time!
And you can always give the computer less time than the human, but this just shows that it's stronger than you and you need to handicap it to have a chance.
- thomasahle 11y agoWhy wouldn't you allow that? Surely the human thinks in the computer's time.
- 21 11y agoSo that the human has a chance... Increasing the human time is not an option, since no one wants to watch 8 hour games, and fatigue could also come into play, so the only real option for a winning chance is reducing computer time/power
- Someone 11y agoYou do not have to watch it live. Correspondence chess is a real thing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_chess), with fewer blunders than tournament chess. Correspondence go, similarly, would see fewer errors. Holding a world championship would take quite a bit longer than in chess, though (rough guess: 300-ish half-moves per game versus 100-ish half moves, the latter, I guess, with a bit more variation). That could be problematic, as a world championship in chess already takes years (curiously, some championships finished before the one started a year earlier did)
- masklinn 11y ago> Increasing the human time is not an option, since no one wants to watch 8 hour games FWIW regular tournament Go games go up to 6 hours, and title games can take more than 16h and span over two days.