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Subject: Re: 3000 Rated program & GM's

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 09:39:19 01/07/99

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>You are bordering on witchcraft now.

Was that "witchcraft" or "which Crafty"? Sorry, in a mood for puns today.

KarinsDad :)

The "a computer can only know as much
>as its program" is a cloudy statement.  It won't know anything that the
>programmer doesn't know, but when you combine knowledge and search, the sum is
>often greater than the individual parts by a huge amount.  IE I don't do
>anything about coordinating squares in king and pawn endings, yet crafty can
>solve many of these instantly with a deep search (fine #70 was long thought
>to be unsolvable by a computer, ever.  It is now solved in a fraction of a
>second by most).
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>So it is more than possible that knowledge plus a deep search produce something
>totally new and unexpected...
>
>We see this every day on ICC.



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