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Subject: Re: Why are you so skeptic...programs made a lot of progress since...

Author: Oliver Roese

Date: 11:38:24 04/05/02

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On April 05, 2002 at 13:33:09, Otello Gnaramori wrote:

>Dear Oliver,
>You are stick to the past when progs was still quite dumb, but nowadays these
>programs really shines and beat the best gm's without many efforts, hardware is
>also contributing to these outstanding performances, but also refined search
>algorithm that achieved the following break-through predicted by Thompson et al.
>:

I am not stick to the past, i simply not own one of these commercial engines.
But even with outdated hardware i have explored much of the beautys
of chess, i couldnt see all the years before.
So i hope these engines will become even stronger.:)


>"Selective search will always loom as a potentially faster road to high level
>play. That road, however, requires an intellectual break-through rather than a
>simple application of known techniques" (Condon and Thompson, 1983).
>

If _I_ were a programmer of a chessengine, i would have cited that too now :)
scnr
Oliver

>w.b.r.
>Otello



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