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

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 07:03:43 10/13/04

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On October 13, 2004 at 09:27:50, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On October 13, 2004 at 09:04:40, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>>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.

Not true! The computer is not remembering anything. It is picking the moves from
a list. It would be totally different if the computer had created the book based
on its own "thinking". And a human has to make a "decision" whether the moves
"e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5" are best or not, while a computer selects a move without
thinking. :-)

Regards
Dave

>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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