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Subject: English as a Programming language

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 14:52:29 07/13/01


I was wondering about any developments in the higher level programming
languages.
I think if plain english was used certain things in chess that are easy to
verbalize in chess could easily turn those computers from "Bean Counters" to
"Positionally Clean" Counters. People say computers are tactically as strong if
not better than gm's in tactics i say sometimes as it takes the best software on
the fastest available computers well over a 3 minute time control to solve quite
a few tactical problems. So sometimes yes and sometimes no however this leaves
defense and  positional play which if anyone out there thinks the computer is GM
level positionally i would refer them to Dortmund games from last year or the
Nederlands ch that same year or even the lone win of Van der Weil over Rebel....
   So then what do the GM's Know that the computers donot? Well without taking
up several pages i will guess that computerchess programming has been around
long enough for someone to have tried to "Teach" the  computer salient points
about the game. I just think that with a higher level language this should be
easier to program yet some work should still be done with Geometry and Storing
positions  i know there will be a Jerk out there that will say we already have
that haven't you heard of Hash tables?

for the more intellectually inclinded : We can make these better by reasearching
what the computer should know explaining the position to the program and
developing the storage to use less space this way it may be possible to fit in
128MB what would now take 1GB



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