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Subject: Re: Symbolic: The TNS (Thousand Node Search)

Author: Janosch Zwerensky

Date: 02:29:45 02/19/04

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>i don't know about this. it's fairly clear that the brain does extensive pattern
>recognition to select a small number of candidate moves instead of looking at
>all moves. insofar i think the difference between computer and human chess is
>quite well understood. however, it's rather unclear to me that porting this type
>of chess-playing to a computer is the right way to go because
>1) you need lots of processing power for the pattern recognition
>2) any selective search is prone to errors when it's candidate move selection
>misses an important move.

(1) might not matter much in the long run if the human way of doing things
turned out to behave better asymptotically. I think one could argue that this
ideed is the case, because relative to computers humans *do* apparently get
stronger when you increase thinking time.
Of course, this argument at best will help to defend a hybrid approach, since
also in correspondence chess and even theoretical openings analysis
human-computer teams do seem to dominate humans (but also computers) today.

>(...)

Regards,
Janosch



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