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Subject: Re: Computer Chess Programs & Intelligence

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 18:52:57 03/14/01

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On March 14, 2001 at 16:58:52, Andrew Dados wrote:

>I think chess can be easily mistaken for a complex problem while it is not. As
>you pointed most advances over last years were done thanks to speed increase
>rather then software.
>
>In a problem where full information is available your move is determined; you
>don't make 'decisions' or 'choices'. That is somehow obvious to me, however I
>fail to create good set of arguments to back up my point that chess programs are
>showing no intelligence.
>
>However if you call chess program intelligent exact same reasoning applies to
>program playing 3x3 tic-tac-toe. Computation cost of solving a deterministic
>model does not make a solution to it more 'intelligent', imo.

I contend that the problem has to be sufficiently difficult before you can
identify that quality (intelligence) in any decently large degree.

bruce



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