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Subject: Re: OK, so what *would* this mean?

Author: John Coffey

Date: 17:25:42 05/24/00

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Couple of comments on this:

1.  I heard that Deep Blue was mostly tactical but could calculate so
deep that it picked up on positional ideas.  I wish that my program could
calculate so deep.  :-)

2.  Early chess programs didn't know the difference between a good and a bad
position, so no amount of extra thinking time would produce better moves.
Modern programs understand chess much better but may still be missing out on
a few things.  Maybe to get any benefit from more processor power then we need
better evaluation functions.

I am trying to write a program that calculates all the squares on the board
as to who controls those squares.  (Maybe this has already been done and I am
wasting my time?)  I expect that my program will be very slow, but maybe the
evaluation function will have some benefits.


John Coffey



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