Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:08:32 11/09/00
Go up one level in this thread
On November 09, 2000 at 06:27:46, Joe Besogn wrote: >I posit that the IDEA is revolutionary because it turns old paradigm assumptions >on their head. It analyses failures of the old paradigm (discussed elsewhere as >anomolies), and seeks to use these anomolies to find a new way which fixes them. > >I posit the IDEA is revolutionary because it is, or has been, strongly opposed. It hasn't been strongly opposed by everyone, and there have been some earlier efforts to create a program that would intelligently sacrifice material. Anyone who has even a vague idea how to play chess knows that when the read older chess literature and find that people have the positional attributes constrained to -0.99 .. +0.99, that's nonsense. MChess returns very large scores for positional attributes, and it has done this since the mid-90's at least. The first MChess I had would lose a pawn and think it was doing OK, although there were times when I disagreed. I believe there have been a lot of long-terms sacrifices in recent tournaments, it doesn't seem uncommon to hear about one. My own program is not very good at speculative attacks, but that's because I haven't done a good job of communicating my intent to the program, not because I oppose the idea. bruce >>This is an evolution, > >Revolution. It fits the Kuhn theory, imo. > > >> it's something for others to experiment with, and >>nobody will have to rewrite their program to do it. > >True. Rewriting programs is not necessary. Rewriting part of the practitioners >brain, is. > >To do it, you have to think different. The revolution is in your own head. Risky >guesses instead of accuracy, seek chaos instead of seek quietness. Handle the >chaos instead of pretending it doesn't exist. Chaos is good for you. > >Revolution in thought of programmer. Hence connected to politics (avoid, avoid, >avoid). Hence connected to personality of programmer (avoid, avoid, avoid). > >QED.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.