Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:50:03 05/12/02
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On May 12, 2002 at 01:37:40, Sean Mintz wrote:
>
>>We have reached GM level and are slowly approaching the super GM level and you
>>want us to throw everything to the trash bin and start over with radically new
>>ideas?
>
>No no no! I do not want us to throw everything away! It's just my opinion that
>there is too much effort in to what we all already know and we aren't really
>trying anything new. And I don't mean this like one of those ''anything is
>possible'' speeches but main focus of the computer chess world has been very
>small. Someone must agree with me.
Actually I agree with you. Some time ago I was complaining against the high
number of Winboard engines that are all essentially the same rehashing of known
techniques.
It is rewarding to use these techniques because with them many programmers can
write chess engines that are quickly playing stronger than their authors.
Creating a chess program has become an interesting programming exercise, nothing
more.
But I think if someone wants to print his name in the field, he should try
something different. Maybe not completely different, but at least bring
something new. I think that the way human player search the tree is extremely
interesting and his not even remotely approached by current computer chess
programs.
Learning is also almost totally absent from computer chess. That's another area
to explore.
Christophe
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