Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 11:50:59 11/12/00
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On November 12, 2000 at 13:25:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: <snip> >The same thinking applies. I am _sure_ I am going to predict his move over >50% of the time. If he takes a long time, should I take a long time, or should >I do a bunch of three minute searches on different moves he might choose, and >after _his_ long think I play a move found after a 3 minute think? One might argue that the computer would be able to predict a very strong [2500+]human's move 50% of the time, but it seems most doubtful that the computer could predict a chess amateur's move very well at all. Of course, if the computer is playing at full strength against a human amateur, then the computer will win 99+% of the time, so the outcome doesn't depend on whether or not the computer thinks on the human's time at all. But for play against amateurs [the most of us], having the program do a radically DIFFERENT kind of computation might make the games more interesting. Perhaps calculation of lines during the human's turn to move could be dispensed with almost entirely in that case. Whether or not a programmer would be motivated to do this is another matter.
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