Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:15:34 07/15/00
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On July 15, 2000 at 19:34:18, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 15, 2000 at 19:24:29, Ron Norris wrote: > >>What will it take to get past GM blockades? >>Will programmers need more knowledge, more code, cpu strength, >>devine intervention? What will solve this in the future? > >Three or four more plies should probably do it. > >There may be a simple algorithmic solution. > >That is not the only situation that causes problems for computers, but it's >probably the best one. I don't even think 20 plies is enough to solve it. Just check out the Classic stonewall position. There is _nothing_ to give black a clue that if he doesn't defend some key weak squares, his king will drown in white pieces. Depth cures lots of things... but I don't think this is one of those things, until we start to search 30 plies deep to see the repurcussions of bad choices. King safety is (IMHO of course) one thing that search isn't good enough to handle by itself.
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