The great AI pioneer Donald Michie, who worked at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing cracking the Enigma code during World War II, wrote wisely about this in 1989, predicting that there could be a “Grandmaster backlash” against machine participation in tournaments: Chess is a culture shared among colleagues who form a human community, however adversarial the game may be in itself. After play, opponents commonly analyze the fine points together, and many find in the tournament room the mainstream of their social life. Robot intruders contribute only brute force, not interesting chess ideas. …
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