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Subject: Re: real bean counter

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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