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Subject: Re: Symbolic?

Author: vladan

Date: 03:48:16 03/16/04

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On March 15, 2004 at 13:33:57, Andrew Wagner wrote:

>Steven? I saw your post after I posted mine this morning. Would you care to
>comment on how you think my ideas compare to your own with symbolic? My guess is
>that my ideas are somewhere in between yours and the classic alphabeta searcher.
>Comments?



Todays processors are designed to compute numbers but not symbols !
In some VI programing languages (PROLOG) symbols and knowlage representation
are the basic, but symbols are again coded with list of numbers (ASCII codes).

These are the main reasons why numeric oriented chess searchers (AlfaBeta,
NullMove, PVS, NegaScout ...) dominate today. The most powerful engines
are also numerical oriented - the difference is only in type of numerical
evaluation of positions.

We are a far away from the building the chess masine that "fill" position.
Till that moment grandmasters will simply play against computers - block
the position and play slowly in low tactic environment.

regards,

vladan, AXON programmer















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