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Subject: Re: Smirin vs. Shredder - a question

Author: Claudio A. Amorim

Date: 07:21:00 04/16/02

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On April 15, 2002 at 12:16:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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

To define what a "kind of position" means is a huge problem in itself. How do I
know for sure that a given position is of one "kind" and not of another?



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