Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:49:35 06/14/98
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Deart Don: I think all your post, enterily, show very clearly the biased and -I believe- wrong way to understand knowledege manyb programmers and customer have. They tends to assimilate knowledge with the acumulation of knowledege, and is not. That is erudition, data acumulation, etc. Real Knowledege is not unelegant is not a heap of knowledege, but on the contrary is to know the simples way to get something to be done. So, programs will be knowledhgeable no when they stock in his memories the total amount of theroy and rules of thumbs, etc, but on the contraru cqwith very simple methods they can grasp the sence of a ches game, that is, what is happening, what is relevant in the total conmplx of pieces relations. Do you think capablanca played like a God because he knew all the rules? Sure he knew a lot, but the point to any chess player with some degree of understanding is that Capablanca just implemented simple but very efficient algoryhtms. A master that is my friend explained to me how Capablanca examined a game: instead of beginning from a position and then performing moves, one after another, he said "this is a position we must reach" and after putting the pices in that ideal position, he then returned to the first position and looked for the moves to reach there. Do you see the point? That is understanding. Thta is elegance. Sure, neither elegance nor understanding will be get just piling rules. Is something else. Maybe the program should be capable to identify positions from a huge table of positions and then formulate what piece of his code to implement, what moves to look, what he must look for? Ciao fernando
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