Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 12:54:26 11/18/00
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When one bullet or a few anthrax spores will work just as well. That is a bad but effective comparison. Brute force is the dumb way to approach any problem. "Just enough" force is a much better way of solving any problem. On November 18, 2000 at 15:48:12, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On November 18, 2000 at 13:39:39, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Does anybody know which programs use which method and which aproach is yielding >>a better result? > >All of todays chess programs use various forms of selective search. Our >processors could not even begin to do full-width and complete 14 ply searches. >Brute force machines would need processors and memory millions of times as much >as even the Pentium IV 1.5 Ghz machines that just arrived today. > >Full width or "brute force" is not a smart way to play chess. Kramnik and >Kasparov are not brute force players. > > >Tim Frohlick
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