Author: Steve B
Date: 14:21:26 01/20/05
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>Computer play probably has a lot of beauty in it...it's just that we have human >brains, and those brains constrain our appreciation of beauty. Is beautiful >chess always winning chess? Is winning chess always beautiful? If winning chess >is always beautiful, then it would seem that GM-level programs must be producing >a lot of beautiful chess these days. the book tried to define beauty with a set of strict rules one was the one i mentioned other's were: deliver mate with weakest piece possible use the least number of pieces to effect the mate etcetc by polling the 20 rated experts these rules were observed and then incorporated into the algorithm the author was not making a subjective definition of beauty only using that term to describe the set of rules that humans follow when contemplating their next move his program closely mimicks how these 20 experts would come uo with a mating move no current day program employs these sorts of rules in evaluating a position Best Steve
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