Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Should computers play for the world championship? Heaven forbid!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:41:56 07/27/99

Go up one level in this thread


On July 26, 1999 at 23:35:36, hgkjhg wrote:

>Do you even know how to play chess good?  In checkers there is only tactics.
>But by the time computers start playing positionally better than humans, crabs
>will have ears.

Checkers does have positional play.  In one game vs. Chinook, Tinsley told
Jonathan that Chinook was going to regret a move.  Many, many moves later
Chinook started to see the light.

Jonathan estimates that it would have taken an 80-ply search (plus the usual
extensions that he is doing) for Chinook to see that the move it played was an
error.

Dave



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.