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Subject: Re: more examples for search-based stupidity

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 16:30:00 06/13/98

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On June 13, 1998 at 10:33:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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...

Right. And the map is full of strange words or lines called:
double-pawn, isolani, passed-pawn, backward-pawn, bishop-pair,
strong-bishop, weak-bishop, ...

>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..

CStal has a search, and knows about germany. It knows where Dortmund is,
it knows about german motorways, and that the difference between odd and
even numbers of motoways. It also knows about pawn-structures. And it
has a search to combine the knowledge that way, to bluff the opponent.
Thats enough to reach Paris. I have driven my car to paris. And mchess
sat next to me. And it made a good job in paris. So did mchess.



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