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

Author: Andrei P

Date: 16:27:51 01/20/05

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On January 20, 2005 at 19:12:20, Steve B wrote:

>>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


agree, more efforst should be put in designing a chess program that is most
human-like in style. it does not have to be super-strong, and it will still sell
well. why there is not much effort in that direction beats me.



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