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Subject: Re: Yet another approach!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:02:24 05/12/98

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On May 12, 1998 at 04:48:31, Hristo wrote:

>Has anybody thought(experimented) about another approach for solving the
>chess game problem?!
>It seems that after all this time one would come up with the conclusion
>that the current algorithms are somewhat going in the wrong direction!
>The programs still play fairly good chess, but ultimately there isn't a
>single program that approaches the solution of the chess game. The
>algorithms based on creating and evaluating a tree of possibly "good"
>moves and *then*(or along the way) applying a filter criteria for fine
>tune the results, seem archaic. The concept of pure algorithm that
>resolves the chess-problem doesn't seem to be in the scope of all these
>extremely smart and knowledgeable people !!!!! The main concern remains
>centered around tests and tournament results and some silly ELO rating.
>Well, then one might ask "How come CraftyX.xx can not win against
>ChessMaster?! Crafty is updated continuously and yet it doesn't appear
>to have a better grip on what is going on, on the chess board! All these
>updates to all these programs ... and the results are still
>unpredictable .... !!??"
>I feel like there is another, much simpler and straight forward approach
>to the chess game. The problem with everyone is that nobody knows the
>correct questions to ask when trying to resolve the Chesss-game.

>Have you ever thought of any alternative ways of getting to the bottom
>of this(Chess)?!
>I certainly have. Just don't want to speak too early ... since some of
>you might have been there already ...

Yes, what about making an android out of Kasparov and then claiming
that computer is world champion?

>Best regards to ALL!
>Hristo.
>
>p.s.
>    What's up with this "jerk" on "alt.games.chess.computer" ... what an
>idiot anyway.
>    ohh yes ... Bob why do you bother answering this stupid bastard?!
>:)))



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