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Subject: Re: Is there any forced pos. which 36 hrs+1.4GHz. Athlon will not solve?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 12:05:13 10/13/01

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On October 12, 2001 at 10:31:18, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On October 12, 2001 at 09:15:59, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>Contd. from heading....with Gambit Tiger 2, Or Deep Fritz, or Fr. 7.0. Or a top
>>program?
>>Is there still any position in the world leading to a win, or even just an
>>advantage
>
>>(recognizable to program!)
>
>Why do you use brackets ? That's in fact the challenge for programs. They should
>be able to recognize an advantage. Otherwise they fail the test.
You are astute. Often, brackets are the key to the main point.
I was thinking about if the power of that set-up was enough, besides the "bug"
like drawbacks. Then, firstly, will any human ever reach those "bugs"? and
secondly (if so), they might be easy to rectify.
S.Taylor
>
>> that not one of the top programs will be
>>able to solve within 36 hours on an Athlon c, at 1.4 GHz. due to tactical
>>inadequacies, or blind spots?
>>
>>If that is fulfilled, then there's not too much work left to solve chess, after
>>refining position assesment a bit more etc.
>>  Only, possibly, a few very long term positional decisions, which maybe no
>>human will ever get around to unleashing against it in a game.
>>  Of course, when speeded up with hardware etc. Or even correspondence, now.
>>S.Taylor



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