Author: Otello Gnaramori
Date: 11:55:27 07/08/01
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On July 08, 2001 at 13:04:22, Gordon Rattray wrote: > > >There is little point in getting carried away with theoritical possibilites. We >are a long way away from having a machine that can play top level chess on the >basis of calculation alone. All of the top chess programs have lots of chess >knowledge. Their playing ability would be greatly decreased if they had this >knowledge removed and had to play on the basis of calculation alone. > Ok, Gordon. I think that was pretty clear that when we are talking about calculation, we imply obviously also the evaluation at the end of it ...otherwise our calculus is of no help at all for our purposes. The search for the best move works considering advantages of positional and material nature, but the evaluation is easily exploited node by node. The difficult job for we "human beings" is when we have to consider and retain the huge tree of variants coming in play. >Do you realise how many possibilities there are in the game of chess? Do you >really think that this can be solved by brute force alone? In theory, yes. But >for practical purposes, it is necessary to think about tactics and strategy and >positional considerations... etc. > >Finally, the article was discussing chess in the general sense and not just from >a computer chess point of view. In that sense, chess will never be just >tactics. > >Gordon IMO CHESS is 99% tactics (Richard TEICHMANN opinion too). Regards.
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