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Subject: Re: NO!

Author: William H Rogers

Date: 13:18:06 03/19/02

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I agree with you 100%, it is just that I do not think that we have compeletely
reached that point as of yet. True that there are some programs that have
exceeded 2600 or even 2700 points, but then maybe perfect chess is over 3000.
We have had some people here do searches that have lasted over several days in
testing some programs. I am of course thinking about perfect chess ie. solved
chess without prerecording all moves in book form. I do not believe in books
that exceed roughly 10 moves, after that I think that they are not opening books
but in midgame and the engines should think for themselves. But then I do not
think that most people will agree with me. We still had a tournemeny in the year
2000 where one program checkmated another without ever leaving its opening book.
If we had perfect or near perfect algorithms already then we would not have to
search very deep at all, we should be able to make the perfect move in just a
couple of plys instead or 8, 10, 12 etc.
IMHO (and I am opinionated)
Bill



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