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

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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