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Subject: Re: NO!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 13:07:11 03/20/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 14:55:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 19, 2002 at 14:43:13, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>Even three or four days still will not play to perfection.
>>Just look at the numbers 40 to the 30 power will still not give perfection and
>>might take years to complete one move.
>>But we are working on it.
>>Bill
>
>It is not a proof that perfection is impossible.
>
>better searching rules(better pruning and extensions) together with better
>evaluation may convince programs to find always the best move.
>
>You do not need to search everything to the end of the game in order to do it
>and the question how many plies you need to search is dependent on the
>evaluation and on the extensions and the pruning rules.
>
>Uri

Hmm, I think you need to search pretty deeply to find which is best of 1.d4 and
1.e4 :)
And you prove nothing with pruning rules and nullmove, only way to be _really
sure_ is to do a fullwidth search :(

-S.





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