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Subject: Re: Knowledge again, but what is it?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 20:13:00 02/24/98

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On February 24, 1998 at 22:29:46, Fernando Villegas wrote:

(huge snip)

>Another impression: for
>the kind of searching abilities computer have, knowledge probably means
>or should mean something very different to our clumsy road signals.
>Fernando

I agree. I'm not a strong chess player, and I think it helps me to have
a sane approach when I try to add knowledge in my program.

I used to believe that my lack of positional knowledge would, sooner or
later, prevent me from improving Tiger's style of play.

But I now have concerns about this. It seems that it is not the case.
And as I have to be very careful when I add any kind of knowledge, I am
forced to immediately play many games to get real data about the
improvement, if there is one. I don't trust my experience as a player.

If I was a strong player, I would say: "this is good for me, so my
program has to know about it". And I would trash it with the kind of
stupid superstitious knowledge most of chess players have.


    Christophe



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