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Denial of what? That one chess engine dethroned the currently best one? This happens every second year. And doesn't make sense why the chess community would be
by RivieraKid 9y ago
Denial of what? That one chess engine dethroned the currently best one? This happens every second year. And doesn't make sense why the chess community would be in denial, did you mean chess engine community?
- jsemrau 9y agoYou are absolutely right. We have build machines to augment human capabilities for thousands of years. I don't see an optimized chess engine on the same level of innovation as a racing tire. A great engineering feat and accomplishment, but not entirely groundbreaking.
- joefkelley 9y agoThe difference is this is an entirely new paradigm of chess engine. So it's not just Stockfish getting an edge over Houdini that year or whatever. There is plenty of "they didn't give stockfish enough memory, the hardware isn't comparable, the time controls were too short, etc etc" in the chess community so there is certainly some denial. But nobody thinks any human would stand a chance. But I agree it's nowhere near the Go denial since the chess community gave up on humans remaining competitive with computers long ago.
- RivieraKid 9y agoI see this as scepticism, not denial. Denial implies that you don't want something to be true, which is perhaps the case with engine developers, not the general chess community.
- forgot-my-pw 9y agoI think you're right. Scepticism is more correct.