Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:15:03 02/15/02
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On February 15, 2002 at 06:16:06, Claudio A. Amorim wrote: >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. I reach a different (and related) conclusion: Computers and humans think about and solve chess problems in completely different ways. Computational methods are just as effective (if not more) than human pattern matching and strategy.
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