Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:18:40 08/30/02
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On August 30, 2002 at 03:17:05, Dave Gomboc wrote: >So I was recently reading that Nemesis won the latest computer championship, >largely on account of its superior book. I can't imagine that checkers theory >still grows in leaps and bounds like chess theory does, but perhaps I am >mistaken? Is it just a matter of weeding out bad lines and setting computer >traps, or is there more to it? > >Dave I think that it is only a question of time until that game is solved by computers by a big book. What is the number of legal positions? What is the number of legal positions that you can get in a game with no stupid blunders? The numbers seem to me too small not to solve the game in a few years if people are interested in it. Uri
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