Author: Shaun Graham
Date: 22:28:50 08/10/98
It is not too uncommon here to hear programs being described as a player or a solver. Generally it seems to me at least to mean that some programs solve test positions better than they play chess, and that other programs play chess better than they solve test problems. Since at least to my knowledge programs don't so much plan or have strategys, then in essence they are solving each position anew on every move. Thus i can't figure out how or perhaps why programs are reffered to as being solvers or players. Yet there is evidence of just this for instance chess tiger seems to solve almost everything, but at least to my knowledge it isn't the absolute strongest program. My only conclusion as of yet, is that some programs are more skilled than others at leading a game to positions that they can have a better understanding of??? Does anyone have a reason on how program x, can be a better solver than y but not be as good of a player?
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