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Subject: Re: Next comp vs humans, comp should not use book

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:27:50 10/13/04

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On October 13, 2004 at 09:04:40, David Dahlem wrote:

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>I repeat, humans use their brain to make their opening moves. They do not look
>at chess books during the game to make a move. Human memory is open to mistakes.
>Computers with opening books, on the other hand, do not think during the
>opening, they are picking moves from a list.

I don't see your point here. If a GM decides to play the Spanish variation, he
simply remembers the moves "e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5" etc. So does the computer.

You seem to say that with humans there are two phases: 1. read moves from books
2.  recall them from their memory. Whereas computers only have one phase, and
you match it with phase 1 from humans.

While I think it's useless to make such comparisons in general, it's pretty easy
to come up with two phases for computers too. Craftys 1st phase is: reading PGN
files. 2nd phase during the game is: recall them from its memory.

Sargon



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