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Subject: Why use a 100 Megaton Bomb to take out one man?

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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