Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:33:13 06/13/98
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On June 13, 1998 at 09:03:48, Thorsten Czub wrote: >When I drive my car, I don't try to watch until the end of the universe. >I only watch out the next 100 metres. Watching deeper, or trying to >watch until the end of the universe, would not make sense, and also not >help me when something crosses my way in the nearest area. >I would say - try further to calculate the universe from the beginning >to the end. I don't follow a theory that cannot be solved in man-kind. >It makes no sense. I better spend my time watching out the POSSIBLE and >try to find alternatives. Of course chess in finite. But I don't think >it will be finite to outsearch it so fast. So : you should maybe better >concentrate on the things you can do, instead of concentrating on the >things you can never do. when I drive my car, I often take long trips. And I use this little thing known as a "map" which does show me the road all the way to where I'm going. If I only looked 100 yards ahead I would *never* find any destination that was more than 100 yards away... > >The one thing is the theory in mind. This is important. But only theory >! >On the other hand we have the life to live. And we should really try to >live it, instead of living strange theories out of mind. > >And maybe one day we know what gravity is. And why planes fly. >But - since we don't know yet, we should not try to teach the public: >THIS is the one and only way to solve chess. Because: >we did not solve it. Only in theory. Only with IF this and IF that would >happen. >But these if's are not realistic. that's the point. I use maps, and fast searches and get reasonable results. How far do you get with a slow search and no map? You can cover a lot of ground, but you may never get where you want to go..
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