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Subject: Re: how many years do we need to practically solve chess?

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:
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>>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.
>>
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>compute 1% of 2^168.
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>:)
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>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:
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>>>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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