Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:46:06 10/14/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 20:24:23, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >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. :) True, but that would be its weakest point, and chess might already be solved by such a computer. S.Taylor
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