Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 17:24:23 10/10/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 21:35:21, stuart taylor wrote: >On October 08, 2002 at 13:33:33, Omid David wrote: > >>[D] 8/4k3/8/p1p1p1p1/P1P1P1P1/8/2B1K3/8 w - - 0 1 >> >>If a human can't see the draw here, he is an idiot. If a program can't see the >>draw here, it's no less idiot (at least not an "intelligent agent", but a "dumb >>agent"). And that's the case with all programs at this stage. So we -- the >>computer chess community -- have still a long way to go, to reach our goal of >>proving that computers can play better than humans. > >As soon as computers can search 100 plies in a few seconds, in very simple >positions, they will see this is a draw in a few seconds too. If you see this position at the leaf node of a tree, you want to evaluate it statically as a draw, or it does you no good. If the only way to see a draw in this kind of position is to search 100 plies, it's still program stupidity. :)
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