Grandmaster Veselin Topalov on chess computers
news24.com had an interview last week with GM Topalov’s view on computers and chess:
“At the present moment I don’t fear humans. Computers I think are very strong,” the Bulgarian grandmaster said.
“The problem against computers is you cannot scare them. This is a big problem, you cannot bluff, (there’s) no psychological fight … The good thing is I don’t care if the computer calculates 100 million moves per second, or 200 million, for me it’s about the same, I don’t see any difference.”
Topalov says that in ten years, computers will be better than 99.9% of humans. I think that is the case now (maybe even 100%), and in ten years the game may be completely solved, like checkers practically is today. As you can see from Kurzweil’s chart, he predicts that by 2013 we will have the computing power to produce a simulation of a functional human brain.
