Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:23:25 02/23/04
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On February 22, 2004 at 13:14:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 22, 2004 at 12:36:36, ludicrous wrote: > >>Let us not forget that we are talking of just the 1 percent of all the possible >>move sequences. The other 99 percent is avoided on principle. >> > > > > >compute 1% of 2^168. > >:) > >That is about how many unique chess positions there are, and that doesn't even >consider the repetition/game history issue that makes this grow _way_ bigger. Repetitions are not needed of course to store on disk at an EGTB. All we need is a single EGTB with win/draw/loss values, just like we have it now for KRP KR >>On February 22, 2004 at 12:04:54, Sandro Necchi wrote: >> >>>More than 50 years. >>> >>>1. I do not think that the programs will be strong enough in 2054 to be able to >>>play without a good opening book to win against a program or similar streght >>>with a good opening book. Of course they will be much stronger than today ones >>>and using much faster hardware. >>> >>>2. I think there is a lot to be found so 50 years will not be enough to have the >>>game of chess solved by computers. >>> >>>This is my opinion. >>> >>>Sandro
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