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). > >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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