Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:18:30 02/23/04
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On February 23, 2004 at 14:23:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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 And if that is > 50 moves without a pawn more or a capture, you win it exactly how? Change the rules of chess? Been tried, been retracted. > >>>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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