Author: Marc Plum
Date: 13:31:47 07/13/01
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Maybe it is worth the experiment if someone wants to donate the equipment and time. Certainly, as other people have been pointing out, computers can, and have, made contributions to specific opening lines. But to invent a viable opening from move one by tactical calculation alone, that is another matter. I can't say that a computer couldn't do it, but the human approach of developing a deep strategic plan, and then working out the tactical details, seems more likely to succeed. Of course, a computer can help to work out the tactical flaws. Then again, maybe one day we will have 32 piece tablebases, and chess will be dead. :-) Marc On July 12, 2001 at 15:35:47, Larry Oliver wrote: > >Starting with its book turned off and left to its own devices, could todays top >programs on a very fast computer with say 12 hours per move think time, invent >the standard openings? If so, that would seem to prove the old standard openings >are completely sound. If not, considering how good modern programs/machines are, >would this not seem to indicate something is wrong with the openings?
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