Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:35:30 07/20/00
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Hi Amir: The fact that sometimes less calculation do the work best that more calculation is not just anecdotic: I think it aims at the core of the problem about the nature of chess and how to handle it. It is obvious that a minimun of calculation is required for human or artificial players or you can fall in an inmediate defeat, but then if your calculation, no matter how long is, does not meet a "final" answer, that is to say, does not resolve the problem in the sense an exhastive calculation of an addition does, then the more you go on with calculations the more you can get into trouble. More calculation without final answer means more nodes to evaluate with the very same limited and speculative code -speculative as much not final answer is at hand- and so more likelihood to follow the wrong track. There is a human saying about not to be smarter than neccesary that seems to be truth until a degree in this case. Regards Fernando
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