Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:24:17 01/20/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 18:52:40, Torstein Hall wrote: >On January 19, 2001 at 15:31:11, Thomas Lagershausen wrote: > >In my view programs do not plan! > >They move back and forth in their trees of moves, adding and subrtacting for >positional values the programmers have given them, until they stumble over some >tactics! Do humans execute top notch tactics? No! They just plan away far into the future and fritter away pieces with careless mistakes. ;-) Computers nickel and dime you to death. Sort of Chinese water-torture. Titanic, herculean struggles to win a single pawn. Humans plan far better than computers until the computers hit the tablebase files. When we are in tablebase, computers plan better than we do because they execute perfect play. The humans and the computers play differently. But both know how to win. For the great masses of mankind, the tactical knick-knick-knick-knick approach used by computers is good enough to beat us nearly all of the time. And, of course, if they see something fat and juicy within about 6-7 full moves, they will spear that too. [snip]
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