Author: Graham Laight
Date: 08:33:07 11/20/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 11:06:46, Bob Durrett wrote: >Would it be possible to evaluate a position so well that only one next move >would need to be considered? In that case, "selective search" would not involve >any selection at all [i.e. nothing to chose between]. The "selection" would be >done during the position evaluation. In the limiting case, only ONE line would >need to be evaluated, except in the cases when two or more moves were found >[during the position evaluation] to be of equal value. Yes - I believe that this will be possible one day (certainly against human opponents). If programmers want to continue to push the ability of their programs long after human players have been left for dust, it may be necessary to take this route. The biggest risk is that, as computers push the ELO levels far above the top human players, an ever higher proportion of games will be drawn, and we'll all lose interest in going any further. Even if this doesn't happen, we might have to wait 30-50 years for computer evaluation to become this good. -g
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