Author: martin fierz
Date: 07:36:22 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 09:53:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] >The problem is that Turing didn't do "computer chess". He did a hand >simulation that was not based on minmax at all... There were a couple >of mechanical chess players as well, one built by Shannon prior to 1949, >as I have an early 1949 photo of him sitting by this machine. But that >isn't "computer chess" either. hmm, define "computer chess" for me! i would say: turing computed chess moves => it was computer chess. whether or not that was done with minimax, alpha-beta, or any other feasible way wouldn't seem to matter to me. e.g. when you use crafty searching to 1 ply depth without qsearch, you only have a "max" search, but it is still computer chess, isn't it? of course, without minimax, i suppose you can't write a sensible computer chess program. but nobody says it has to play well :-) cheers martin
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