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Subject: Re: The latest truth on chess ?

Author: Christian Kongsted

Date: 10:43:13 07/09/01

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Kasparov:
The depth of the computer's calculation gives it certain positions
understanding. Even as we saw today, machines don't
>understand many things. But only if it goes beyond the depth of its
>calculation."
>
This comment by Kasparov is very deep, and its not a publicity stunt. Nobody -
computers or humans - can see the game to the end, and therefore we develop the
concept of positional understanding. For humans, it is indeed a feeling, and it
is at least as important as calculating variations. For machines you put things
on formula so you get plusses for the bishop pair in open positions etc.

I dont believe that a human that only analyses chess as tactics will ever come
much above 2000 ELO. But I may be wrong here. Whats your ELO, Otello?



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