A computer has restricted chess, the interdiction of delay the game is a specific example of it. For a chess player a computer is not any more considered as a factor, it is insurmountably indispensable, especially when a chess player aims at higher tasks.
Computer firms understood that achievements in this field are more clearly demonstrated in chess, to vanquish chess star is the most valuable advertising for computers manufactured by them.
What does a computer force reside in? What is a relative balance between a computer and a human brain? What is the secret of capacity achieved in chess by computer? What is the speed of its capabilities increasing? What will chess become in the future? Or will it repeat the fate of draughts? Is Fisher’s chess or not the solution of the problem?
Only deep analysis can find the answer to these questions: For scientists there is not almost anything unclear in a computer, but a human brain is still an unstudied sphere. In comparison with a human brain a computer is a system backward for some stages. It manages to compensate its weakness at the cost of geometric parameters and infinitely big power. So the advantage of a computer in comparison with a human brain is incontestable in the field of sorting and saving the information. The primitivism of a human brain in rationalism and intellect is undoubtful.
The speed of increasing computer’s capabilities is more a myth than a reality. namely in 1997 the highest power computer was making two billion operations in a second today this number does not exceed 10 billions, so, it has increased five times only within last 10 years . It means that the capabilities of the computer are not infinite.
Perhaps we won’t be wrong saying that today a computer is a computing machine fulfilling a black (secondary) work, the rest of it is a program invented by a human brain.
A computer did not vanquish draughts, a human brain it-self managed to reduce the interest toward this game, because he subordinated overcoming the probability of moves, provoking a very high rate of draws and consequently the reduction of the interest toward them.
Without high power computers, of course, a human brain only could not restrict chess. Only the unity of a human brain and high power computers might be considered as a real competitor of chess.
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