The humans would be in a position where they could at least draw a lot of the time, specially if they were aware the computers cant open
Effectively the humans would always be playing white. Their track record with white against computers I'm sure is not as bad as black, furthermore they would develop all kinds of tricks to get the computers to make opening mistakes
That is an awful lot of hand waving. Let's run the experiment. One thing that I could try is, take Deep Rybka 4 and shut down it's opening book. Then have it play against another computer that is able to accurately simulate different human players. If I was sure that these simulations were never at say higher than 2750 ELO, it would be a good experiment.
This is unprecedented in the world of chess, or at least we have not seen anything like it since Capablanca. The world's number one chess player is now a fashion model!! :eek: The only reason for the surprise isn't that chess players aren't good looking, it is simply that most of them are usually brooding over a chess board and immersed in their art to be bothered with such triviality. No more!!!! There are easily ten young grandmasters around the world that could pull it off. The only thing left is a shot of a smoking hot woman in his arms romantically looking at each other in very close physical proximity to each other. Sex sells. Who though? She has to be stunning, out of this world talented, sexy, and classy. WHO? If it can help make chess that much more interesting to young kids and get them to leave their Wii, everyone wins. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6485
A game that has been around for four thousand years and is considered one of the most if not the epitome of strategic thinking and is often used to train for war, and counts amongst its admirers and players Napoleon, Houdini, Abraham Lincoln, the list is endless http://www.chess-poster.com/english/notes_and_facts/famous_people_who_played_chess.htm has no balls? It is only one of three subjects along with music and mathematics where psychologists can categorize you as a prodigy. So not only are you manic depressive, you are also impulsive and uneducated too? "Chess is a violent game. It is boxing of the mind" - Garry Kasparov
Chess at the professional level is played for big stakes too. Sadly, it took until Fischer so that chess had multi-million prize funds. Even today, it is not anywhere near poker prize funds.
there is none of your own money at risk in chess. all upside to the prize money but when you lose you lose nothing. pussys. where do the balls come in