Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:29:33 05/10/98
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Dear Keith: First, let me give you my warmest thanks for your extended and detailed piece of information about your talk with Hsu. Second, let me tell you that I feel very well to know that my enthusiasm for CSTASL, showed here until the limit of fanatism, is shared by a guy like Hsu and, If I can say it, by you. Third, it also very flattering me to know that Hsu used a method of evaluation baed in second degree levels that is not far the method I proposed lot time ago to some programmers and in WCCR I think also, one that I called "modular", a method based in the simple fact that intelligent behaviour is not made out of an exhaustive calculation of factors put together in an specific moment, but a feedback provcess where in different moments different kind of progressive more detailed factor are taken into account on the gvround of previous calculations. I remember I putted the example of a tennis player that does not try to calculate precisely the trayectory of the ball in the very moment the adversary strike it with the racker, but take a serie of decisions in a sucesions of moments; first, the general direction of the ball, right or left so I begin to run right or left; then , the altitude, low or high, etc, etc, until all this with corrections received from the very trayectory the ball is really taking, etc... Of course, not being myself a programmer, I never received about that the minimal commentary, not even to reject it. Neither I am saying "This" what Hsu did. It just enogh for me to suppoose than a vague intuition is not so far the real thing made out for the the best chess computer of the world. Finally, after all you have said I almost cannot wait the moment Mr Hsu will launch his product to the market, if if he does it at all.
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