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Subject: Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 17:17:08 01/12/05

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On January 12, 2005 at 19:57:49, chandler yergin wrote:

>On January 12, 2005 at 19:09:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2005 at 18:57:24, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 12, 2005 at 18:46:12, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 12, 2005 at 18:21:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 12, 2005 at 18:00:30, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On January 12, 2005 at 17:43:45, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On January 12, 2005 at 17:26:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On January 12, 2005 at 13:31:16, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>>>>>This is why I keep pestering Skinner to let me download some of them :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>And when the 7-man tables are finished? (2010 or so :))
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Not in your lifetime!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>All the essential files will be done before long.
>>>>>>>>KQQQQQk is not very interesing, for instance.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Computers will become
>>>>>>>>>>invincible in the ending, as they win all "simple" endings like KQPPKQP with
>>>>>>>>>>ease.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>anthony
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   Not until you get the BUGS out of the Programs.
>>>>>>>>>Humans still Rule; NOT Silicon Chips!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Humans also have flaws in their analysis.  Eventually, computers will win every
>>>>>>>>game, because humans advance slowly and compute power advances exponentially.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It is simply inevitable
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It is not so clear.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>If the game is complicated enough computers will eventually win every game but
>>>>>>>if the game is simple enough humans may play perfect at least in part of the
>>>>>>>games and get draws.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>It is not clear that chess is complicated enough so humans cannot avoid drawing
>>>>>>>against computers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>YES! They can Draw!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>A deterministic machine will be unable to win every game because human who want
>>>>>>>to draw it will need only to learn the moves of game of that machine against
>>>>>>>itself and use them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What do you call a 'deterministic' machine?
>>>>>
>>>>>deterministic machine is machine that always play the same move from the same
>>>>>position.
>>>>>
>>>>>>Computers "Store & Retrieve Information. They have NO intelligence!
>>>>>>I'm glad you realize that!
>>>>>
>>>>>Computers need no intelligence to be not deterministic.
>>>>>
>>>>>Changing the weight of the evaluations by some small random number can cause
>>>>>them to choose different move.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Look at the EPD Test Positions.. How many  Programs Fail to Solve them?
>>>>>>Hmmmm?
>>>>>
>>>>>Computers get bettter and better and I do not claim that it is impossible that
>>>>>in the future they will solve every chess problem.
>>>>
>>>>I DO!
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>probably you will not live to see it but it is possible that younger people than
>>>>>you may see it.
>>>>
>>>>Nonsense!
>>>>>
>>>>>>How many make D-U-M-B mistakes...?
>>>>>>Hmmmm?
>>>>>>Computers will NEVER Solve Chess!
>>>>>>Period!
>>>>>
>>>>>Not in the near future but I cannot be sure of never.
>>>>
>>>>I can!
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I cannot be sure that it is impossible that humans will invent some algorithm to
>>>>>detect illogical moves and by pruning them will solve chess.
>>>>
>>>>You fail to grasp the Obvious!
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It is also possible that if computers search deep enough they will practically
>>>>>solve chess and inspite of no proof that they solve chess nobody will be able to
>>>>>beat them even with take back.
>>>>
>>>>Nonsense!
>>>>Your enamoration for a man-made machine is tooo much!
>>>>I don't buy it!
>>>>There is not a Database large enough or a Program 'smart enough, or the time
>>>>long enough to 'solve' what is for all practical purposes  'infinite'
>>>>possibilities. Your Hard Drive can be spinning until the Universe is a Cold Dark
>>>>Place.. and NOT SOLVE CHESS!
>>>>Period!
>>>>
>>>>If you don't like to consider Cold.. then until "HELL FREEZES OVER"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You spout Nonsense!
>>>
>>>SQRT(10^43) nodes is a lot less than infinite, and that is how many nodes are
>>>needed to solve chess.  Or [more simply] to make the perfect move given any
>>>position.  Chess will be solved in the lifetime of the readers of this forum.
>>>It is simply unquestionable to those with understanding of simple mathematics.
>>
>>I have no proof that sqrt(10^43) is enough.
>>
>>It may be enough but may be not enough and it is probably not enough with the
>>techniques that are used today.
>>
>>10^43 may be the number of possible positions in chess but it does not mean that
>>sqrt(10^43) is enough for the same reason that I do not know of a way to solve
>>KRB vs KR position with only sqrt(64^5) nodes inspite of the fact that there are
>>less than 64^5 KRB vs KR positions.
>>
>>64^5=2^30
>>sqrt(64^5)=2^15
>>
>>I know of no program that can solve KRB vs KR positions with no tablebases in
>>2^15 nodes even if solving only mean finding the right move.
>>
>>The question if chess will be solved in the next 50 years is an open question.
>>We also do not know what will be the speed of computers 50 years from today.
>>
>>Uri
>
>Today.. thay can't even solve a Mate in 35 that a young Lady saw...

The question is also if she saw the mate or sayed for some positions that this
is a mate in less than 10 without calculating.

Can you show us a tree of all the lines that lead to mate?

>Or.. another position where she annouced Mate in 21... after searching BILLIONS
>of Positions.
>Chess Will NOT be solved by Computers.
>Programmers STFU!
>You are jusr embarrassing yourselves.
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I do not expect it to happen in the near future but it does not mean that it
will never happen.

Uri



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