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Subject: Re: Will TACTIC's eventually REFUTE! Positional play?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:49:12 01/28/02

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On January 28, 2002 at 06:33:26, Amir Ban wrote:

>On January 28, 2002 at 06:12:53, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>>Will TACTIC's eventually REFUTE! Positional play?
>>
>>In the end yes.
>>
>>It is my (new) opinion that the nature of chess is just search.
>>
>>Elo progress of (professional) chess programs...
>>
>>1990 - elo 2000 (average depth 6-8) (TC 40/2h)
>>1995 - elo 2300 (average depth 8-10)
>>2000 - elo 2500 (average depth 11-13)
>>2002 - elo 2600 (average depth 12-14)
>>
>
>This begs the question, because the programs are newer and play positionally
>different. Will a 1990/1995 program perform 2600+ on today's hardware ?
>Doubtful.

I believe that the answer is no but the main reason is the fact that today
programs search deeper on the same hardware.

Uri



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