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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 03:28:58 01/13/00

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On January 12, 2000 at 00:03:59, Michael Neish wrote:
>And where do you draw the line anyway?  It's a shady area I
>think.  While Anand can't remember every single game played

I think you are absolutely right. The opening book is as much a part of the
chess program as anything else.

God did not come down from heaven one day and decree that computers should only
use alpha-beta search algorithms.

Imagine the following scenario: all chess programs are using minimax. Somebody
discovers alpha-beta. Can you see the Grandmaster community in an uproar because
computers don't have to search every possible variation anymore? I can. =)

-Tom



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