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Subject: Re: NO!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:21:53 03/20/02

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On March 20, 2002 at 16:07:11, Sune Fischer wrote:

>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.

The point is that you do not need to prove that you play perfect game
in order to play perfect game and I guess that both 1.e4 and 1.d4
lead to draw.

Uri



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