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Subject: Re: Victory for Computer Chess (!) = Waterloo

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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