Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:24:10 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 12:54:33, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>On January 01, 2004 at 03:07:57, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On December 31, 2003 at 21:23:25, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>Just one warning: avoid falling in the Botvinik trap.
>>
>>What is the Botvinik trap?
>
>
>Too much knowledge at the expense of efficient search. As a consequence, the
>program was never actually finalised... As I said earlier, one of the followers
>was Viktor Vikhrev who published his program Kentavr back in 1992. Kentavr did
>pretty well against humans, but had big problems against computers, even then
>before the wide-spread null move algo.
Yes, that's what I meant.
It was too much of human self-satisfaction about how great our knowledge and the
way we use it is. Computer programs so far have told us another way, which is
also too much of computing power self-satisfaction (I somehow belong to that
school, but I can see the vanity of it).
A middle road would be welcome.
Christophe
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