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Subject: Re: Beauty In Chess..The Differences Between Human And Computer Play

Author: Steve B

Date: 16:12:20 01/20/05

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>Trying to define beauty with a set of rules is silly to me.


the point of the exercise was to develop a program that more closely resembled
the same thought process that the 20 rated experts employed(each rated at least
2000 elo)
to make a program that "thinks" about its move more  like that of a  human

not to come up with a concrete definition of Beauty

when the early AI programers(Turing ,Shannon ,Botvinnik.etc) decided on chess as
a worthy subject to try to emulate in a program it was with the idea of having a
computer "think" like a human nad therefore learn more about human thought
process

computer chess has greatly diverged from this path,with the main focus on
winning tournaments for awards and prize money

therefore you have this current day concentration on more speed and more
powerful hardware to search deeper and deeper and thusly you no longer have
chess program's  that think about a move the way humans would

after Kasparov's loss to Deep Blue in 1997 Hans Berliner(former World
correspondence  champion and programmer of the very first chess program to
achieve International master status with Hitech)said
"Deep Blues designers did not believe in enhancing chess computers performances
by endowing them with humanlike chess knowledge...they knew little about chess"

we have gotten far afield from the very reason chess were chosen by the early
pioneers in the field of computer chess

winning,brute force,speed and power are the order of the day

to me..this is silly
Best
Steve



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