Re: [computer-go] Modern brute force search

[Don Dailey <drd@xxxxxxx>]

> Btw, I don't remember which chess player brought up the point about top
> pro's certainly overestimating themselves. Have you ever read
> commentaries by top pros on their own games? They seem very humble to
> me. There are certainly quite some characters among them, but I would
> bet a lot that you would nowhere find the arrogance of a Kasparov among
> go top pros.

I'm the  one that brought  that up, but  I can easily believe  that GO
players  are more  humble than  Chess players.   I have  met  very few
humble Chess  players (except for Vincent.)

If  I  actually did  say  players  overestimate  themselves, it's  not
exactly what  I meant.  It's people  in general who make  god's out of
the top players,  and it's the human race,  especially western culture
that  has an  inflated view  of human  accomplishments  and abilities.
Us humans have this arrogant awe of our own abilities.

Many of  you will easily remember  when "no chess  computer would ever
beat a master at chess."  And they didn't mean grandmaster, they meant
2200  ELO player.   This wasn't  the occasional  stupid  person saying
this, it was  a widely held belief.  It was  USUALLY top chess players
who said this, the kind that would say to you, "I know more about this
than you do, so shut up."


- Don


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