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Subject: Re: Smirin vs. Shredder - a question

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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