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Subject: Re: Programming idea-to get computers really its limitations?

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 04:09:02 04/28/00

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I'm sorry to be negative, especially as I'm a great believer in "new ideas", but
it seems to me that the basic problem is that you have no idea what moves your
opponent is going to make - therefore this scenario planning is unlikely to
produce anything realistic.

-g

On April 27, 2000 at 21:58:09, stuart taylor wrote:

>Is it possible to program a computer to set many possible future scenarios of
>favourable positions possible to arrive at with same material ballance (from
>that current position-some time later, even 40-60 ply's or more), then have the
>program find ways how to get there?
>  If so, then computers will be able to plan like a top-class human!
>I mean with same pieces or after various exchanges-which may be possible to
>provoke purposefully or forecefully, and to weigh up pros and cons of the
>outcomes of counter plans, and their possibilities of excecution, and there not
>being any snags along the way.
> So the program will be thinking in plans and patterns as well as in
>calculations.
>  It would be a bit random-like at first, then the best scenarios would be
>computed. etc.



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