Author: Steve B
Date: 17:16:07 01/20/05
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My own personal opinion is >that beautiful chess isn't necessarily winning chess. Computers seek to play >winning chess, regardless of aesthetics. The fact that human beings see a >particular move as beautiful means nothing in the brutal logic of the chess >tree, but instead reflects the biases of our own neural networks, which often >over-emphasize heuristics because they just don't have the horsepower to do >anything else. i can agree with this but i would add that chess was first chosen as a worthy subject by the early AI programers because of the desire to learn more about how we humans think winning has nothing to do with this and today program's do not even remotely choose a move they way humans do and they tell us very little about how we think we simply have gotten far afield Steve
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