Author: walter irvin
Date: 12:26:30 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 15:18:34, James Swafford wrote: >On November 18, 2000 at 15:07:20, walter irvin wrote: > > >>If a chess program had zero chess knowledge outside of rules of the game and the >>value of the pieces .Could it play above 2800 elo if it were ran on hardware >>that had it seeing 250,000,000,000,000 nps ?? > >I believe this is where what's theoretically possible and what's practically >possible are different. In theory, you could solve the "problem" of chess with >tactics alone, as the end result is just 0,½, or 1. > >If you keep throwing enough zeroes behind that number, then at some point >I think it indeed would play above 2800 elo. I'm not sure how many zeroes >you'd have to use, though, because what would really matter in this case >is depth of search. > >On the other hand does anyone >>believe that it is POSSIBLE a chess program could be written that would squeeze >>2800 elo out of an old 4 mhz pc ???? > > >I don't. :-) i think it is possible , if a program had a real good learning function also it may be possible if pattern recognition could be realized . > >-- >James
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