Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 13:32:40 04/20/02
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On April 20, 2002 at 16:26:13, Mike Hood wrote: >Russell, although you're contradicting my basic tenet (ie that computer programs >don't use strategy, they just use brilliant tactics), our viewpoints aren't so >far apart. Using your metaphor, the grandmaster is the tortoise and the computer >program is the hare. The computer program can analyse 100000 positions while the >grandmaster is analysing a single position. And yet the grandmaster can still >win. How? The grandmaster makes up for his severe loss of speed by using >"strategy". The grandmaster makes up for most of the loss in analysis speed by better selective searching, not by strategy. I've seen Vincent outcalculate my program in 5 3 blitz games. -- GCP
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