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Subject: Re: Fruit 2 and endgame play

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 00:30:58 01/13/05

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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.

Nonsense! You have the rest of your life to get over it!
>We also do not know what will be the speed of computers 50 years from today.
>
>Uri


Doesn't MATTER!



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