Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 06:04:28 12/20/02
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On December 19, 2002 at 23:54:35, Jonathan Lee wrote: >The question is I want to know what the cup half empty or half full? A 50 >percent score with 4 draws included is quite like having a lever and both sides >have equal weight. >I might add that the 2nd half of the match was different by score than the 1st >half. Did Kramnik get tired? > >I believe there will be improvements no matter how small or insignificant the >rating increases for each piece of computer code is added on the software side. >(also known as quantum leaps). The opening and endgame libraries are fine >examples. > >On the hardware, my educated guess tells me that will be a limit on speed >(Moore's law for example) sometime in the 3rd millenium. > >I want to add that statistics are interesting computer chess. For example, you >can prune the nodes differently (one for the middle game, another for the >endgame, another for the king and pawns only, etc.) so that you could have a >dynamic pruning system. (Does that make sense to anyone?) > >I hope this was inspirational Einstein; your CCC profile says this. >Jonathan I have a misspelled word in my profile, but forgot my password so don't know how to change it. : ) It's Albert, not Alburt. Your idea about a ****DYNAMIC PRUNING SYSTEM**** sounds extremely interesting!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps that's the chess engine programming breakthrough, which everybody has been waiting for! The only problem, perhaps fatal, which your idea may encounter, is inertia. The guru chess programmers, mired down in their conventional established ways of thinking, may be unwilling to shift gears from second to third. Bob D.
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