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> For the longest time Chess was considered a domain where computers could be dilettantes but could never dominate I don't think this was ever true. Chess prog
by andrepd 4y ago
> For the longest time Chess was considered a domain where computers could be dilettantes but could never dominate
I don't think this was ever true. Chess programs appeared EXTREMELY early in, and everyone recognised that it was a matter of time until hardware was quick enough to evaluate so many positions per second that grandmasters could be defeated by sheer calculation.
- jacquesm 4y agoI was playing chess pretty fanatically when Sargon came out and that was my impression as a computer person, but the chess people around me really didn't think that computers would ever beat the top GMs.
- macintux 4y agoMost major advances are predicted by someone, and often seem obvious in hindsight, but it seems like we often conflate those and remember them having been obvious before they happened.
- jacquesm 4y agoThe number of people working with computers back then was but a handful so that gave me a bit of a different perspective but I think that anybody that was both into computers and into chess back then would have made the same prediction. It still happened faster than I thought it would.