Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:06:00 09/11/04
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Bob: The reason for the eternal return of this issue is a perhaps an understable phallacy of thinking. The phallacy is to believe that the quality -or soul- of a chess programs resides only in his code or even only in the evaluation part of it. Anything else appears, to that view, as just a kind or variation of brute force techniques and anything "brute force" appears, under that view, as not real chess. So hardware, book, even perhaps the speed of the search algorythm, learning, you name it, must be excluded. So, the argument continue, to see which chess proram is better you must put those codes in equal conditions in everything else. The slower the better. Tourns should be celebrated with Atari 1980 vintage. In short, it is an argument that does not see that a chess program -as a program on everything else- is a totality, including sometimes, as in Deep Blue, even a masive hardware. My best fernando
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