Author: Sergei S. Markoff
Date: 03:52:14 06/06/03
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>I'm planning to buy that book next week, but I would like to also hear how did >you take advantage and what main benefit did your program gain by implementing >the trajectories ideas. It seems that you were the first to really benefit by >using Botvinnik idea, since many programmers have decided not to implement it. >Botvinnik had the right idea, but his programming skills were not up to his >level of understanding and mastering chess. That is probably why his program >never reached master level. Using of Botvinik ideas, I think, is only possible from very critical point of view. The main problem that Botvinnik did a completely unproved conclusion that computers must use in chess methods that is similar to human ones. But the architecture of our electronic machines is completely different, very unlike human brain. Botvinnik spent a lot of his own time and time of his adepts trying to implement human methods of chess-playing. But this goal needs not only near infinite programming skills, but a fantastic methodology of human knowledge extraction. Our conceptions of our knowledge is often very methaphysically. It's only the illusions. When reading Botvinnik your can found that modern computer chess is under a great influence of his ideas. But this is only influence, not direct using of any concrete ideas. The Botvinnik idea is to build search on knowledge. Not divide search and evaluation. It's a very mechinistic division. Botvinnik's program must be very intellegent, it must discover some lines much deeper that other ones.
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