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Subject: Re: Just learning capability?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:28:44 06/13/00

On June 13, 2000 at 15:58:49, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 13, 2000 at 15:40:53, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>How is an opening book any more or less inherent to a chess program than an
>>evaluation function? That's absurd.
>>-Tom
>
>I don't find it absurd at all. A chess program can function without an opening
>book, but no without an evaluation function AFAIK. Not comparable IMHO.

A chess program needs only one thing to play chess:
A legal move generator.

No evaluation is needed.  When there are no more legal moves, the game is over.

Re: Just learning capability? Pete Galati 14:13:36 06/13/00
- Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 14:20:41 06/13/00
  - Re: Just learning capability? Pete Galati 16:50:39 06/13/00
Re: Just learning capability? Mogens Larsen 14:09:12 06/13/00
- Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 16:18:45 06/13/00
  - Re: Just learning capability? Mogens Larsen 16:57:39 06/13/00
    - Re: Just learning capability? KarinsDad 08:54:38 06/14/00
      - Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 10:23:19 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 11:01:58 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? KarinsDad 10:56:42 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 13:07:40 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 14:35:47 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 15:51:10 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 17:17:36 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 18:43:40 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 10:42:12 06/15/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 13:51:03 06/15/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 16:29:42 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Hans Gerber 18:56:56 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 21:20:05 06/14/00
      - Re: Just learning capability? Mogens Larsen 09:59:54 06/14/00
    - Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 17:21:25 06/13/00
      - Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 00:42:02 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 01:01:25 06/14/00
      - Re: Just learning capability? Mogens Larsen 00:33:59 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? blass uri 00:56:51 06/14/00
        
        Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 00:53:35 06/14/00
      - Re: Just learning capability? Dann Corbit 18:43:14 06/13/00
        
        Just curious what happens when we scroll too far over [NO TEXT!] Dann Corbit 18:48:29 06/13/00
        
        Re: Just curious what happens when we scroll too far over [NO TEXT!] Dann Corbit 18:49:02 06/13/00
        
        Re: Just curious what happens when we scroll too far over [NO TEXT!] Dann Corbit 18:50:04 06/13/00
        
        Re: Just curious what happens when we scroll too far over [some text] Pete Galati 19:46:44 06/13/00

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