Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:18:15 02/07/01
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On February 06, 2001 at 17:53:02, Torstein Hall wrote: >Of course they can, but take a look at the following postion I found at Tim >Krabbes http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/diary.htm web site. > >[D]5k2/2Q5/8/8/5p2/5P2/5P2/K7 w - - 0 1 > >Fritz and friends with 5 man table bases all want to play the "obvious" 1.Qf7+ >and mate in 25 or 26! :-o) What a ugly move to play! > >This feels like proof that chess computers should not be allowed to use opening >books or endgame tables, if they ever want to play something looking like human >chess, that is! This is the output of Chest: 5k2/2Q5/8/8/5p2/5P2/5P2/K7 w - - acn 116727; acs 5; bm Kb2; ce 32756; dm 6; pv Kb2 Kg8 Kc3 Kh8 Kd4 Kg8 Ke5 Kh8 Kf6 Kg8 Qg7#; By definition of beauty being the shortest, witness this 6 move indisputable checkmate found in 5 seconds on a slow machine. Computers can perform any calculation that humans can do, and most of the time far better. Imagine a machine with 1024 CPU's. This machine has 100 chess programs running, and 24 mate solvers. Each of the 100 chess programs has 10 CPU's dedicated to it. They coordinate together what they have found and select the most wonderful outcome. Will it find a better move than you do? Will it find the best checkmate? It is only a matter of time before this power becomes a reality.
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