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No humans have won against a top engine in over a decade, and they almost surely never will.
by andrepd 4y ago
No humans have won against a top engine in over a decade, and they almost surely never will.
- somenameforme 4y agoThis is somewhat misleading because there have also been no classical time control human-computer matches since 2006 when Kramnik played against Fritz. That match more or less ended interest in these matches. Every game was drawn until Kramnik randomly blundered a trivial mate-in-1 in a simple position. That mistake was undoubtedly driven by psychological reasons. Playing against an engine is nothing like playing against a human and it's difficult if not impossible to put oneself in the proper mindset to play well. The following games were then also drawn until Kramnik decided to do the chess equivalent (when playing against a computer) of going for a hail mary, with black, in the final game to try to even the match score. Suffice to say, that failed and the match ended as a generally disappointing, for everybody, 4-2. There have been a variety of gimmicky matches since (fast time controls, various odds matches, etc), but nothing serious.