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Subject: Re: Simple position - no understanding for many chess programs

Author: Claudio A. Amorim

Date: 03:16:06 02/15/02

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On February 14, 2002 at 23:01:33, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 14, 2002 at 19:05:56, Hans van der Zijden wrote:
>[snip]
>>[D]k7/rb6/pr4p1/Pp3pPp/1Pp1pP1P/2PpP3/3P4/4K3 w - - 0 2
>>
>>Fritz7 still takes after 1 hour.
>
>Yes.  This is exactly what I had hoped to accomplish.  Your position is much
>better than the one I came up with.

It does not even matter if the program search for 2 seconds or 10 hours. The
simple fact that the program has do to some sort of look-ahead shows that there
is something a 1500 ELO human can do that a 2700 rated computer cannot.
The conclusion is that computers do not have to understand chess in order to
defeat humans.

• Re: Simple position - no understanding for many chess programs Dann Corbit 11:15:03 02/15/02

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