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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 23:14:24 06/12/00

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On June 13, 2000 at 00:05:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Since we are interested in fairness, I subit the following:
>
>0.  The human players cannot use any opening they have memorized.  After, that
>is unfair use of stored knowledge.  If someone is allowed to use a known
>opening, it will be only under the conditions that they have never played a game
>of chess or read a chess book -- but only been given a sheet of paper holding
>the rules of the game.  Of course, after reading it, it must be set aside (no
>cheating).
>
>1.  The human can only think for 1e9/1e21 = one trillionth as long, since the
>human brain can perform 1e21 computations per second [Morozevitch's book on AI]
>while a good computer can barely muster one billion calculations per second.

It seems like you're missing the point slightly. Noone said that human players
and computer programs should abide by the exact same restrictions. That would
not be possible since the approach to the game is very different. The
restrictions you mention aren't necessary, since computers have similar
advantages on other areas, which maintains the balance. There's a difference
between learning by doing and copying without thinking. I leave who's doing what
as an exercise :o).

Best wishes...
Mogens



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