Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:16:38 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 12:13:37, Uri Blass wrote: >>Not "did not calculate". Instead, "did not understand"... > >Computers understand nothing. >They only calculate. > >The evaluation function is only calculation based on a formula that the >programmmer told the computer. I think what he means is that Shredder does not have the right formulas for this kind of position, so it's calculations will be off, and that caused the loss. It's possible for a program to have to wrong formulas and still play right, because the search serves as an error-correcting device. -- GCP
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