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Subject: Re: Bill Gates discusses computer chess

Author: Dan Ellwein

Date: 22:06:34 04/21/00

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On April 21, 2000 at 04:27:14, Mark Ryan wrote:

>To read some articles from the last 5 years, go to:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/billgates
>
>Then go to the search window and type
>
>chess
>
>When you press Go, this should produce 8 "hits"; in some of the Q&A  in hits
>1,2, and 4, Bill discusses computer chess, Kasparov versus Deep Blue I and II,
>and artificial intelligence.  (He also mentions that he is an avid chess player,
>and that he once wanted to be the world's strongest chess player.)
>
>Cheers,
>Mark


good site... Mark...

Bill Gates is pretty blunt about computers and chess... but seems to be right on
the money...

"The toughest problem of all in computer science, much tougher than computers
that hear or see or any of those things, is to make a computer that learns. And
here, we don't really even have a basic approach yet. When you hear about
advances in computers that play chess, that's brute force. I mean, it's very
impressive that they can do it, but it's purely brute force. It's not based on
the same kind of pattern recognition that humans have that is very general in
nature."




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