Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 21:35:52 07/13/01
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On July 13, 2001 at 17:52:29, Joshua Lee wrote: >I was wondering about any developments in the higher level programming >languages. This work is one of the highest risky ones. You may have a huge success, but only 1/millions of chance. You will probably throw away tens years of hard working. Note that many people have been thinking and working hard for the same wishes, but so far, very few are successful. IMHO, natural language understanding, programming languages+compilers, machine learning and computer chess fields should be treated separately because any of them are so big and complicated for a life. >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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