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Subject: Re: Ingo Althofer does something similar...

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 13:19:57 10/19/00

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On October 19, 2000 at 12:33:01, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Ingo Althofer, a german mathematician that visited me a couple of years ago, do
>something similar, but he is the arbiter. And he uses one engine. Maybe if he
>read this he could tell us something about what happens when this heap of brains
>is putted to perform. There was also a very old program that had two engines,
>one to tactical calculations, the other for strategic decisions. The first to do
>the job was the strategical one, looking for the best positional move; then the
>tactical asociate took a look to see if something was tactically wrong. But
>then, what a third party could do? What the paralell engines does? What a heck
>the third engine decides? I guess that the paralel engines goes along different
>but equally tactical lines  and then the third engine decides on strategical
>grounds IF there is not too much difference in the score of the previous two.
>Opinions?
>
>fernando

Ah, you beat me to the punch. I was just about to post, "How are they going to
fit Ingo Althofer into a computer?" I think he called his project 3-Hirn (three
heads). I used to follow it with interest from the old CC Reports.



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