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

Author: Steve B

Date: 17:38:30 01/20/05

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>Your point is that computers will play beautiful chess when they play the way
>that you think they should.

no
my point is what was interesting to the early pioneers in AI programming and the
reason chess was chosen as a meaningful game to try to get a computer to play
was to learn more about how humans think
current day programs do not do consider the same sorts of things that humans do
when making a move,therfore they tell us nothing about how we think


  I know it is a fact,
>because it is beautiful to me.  And if it is beautiful to me it does not have to
>be beautiful to you in order to be beautiful.

well i can agree that something need not be beautiful to me to be beautiful to
you.
>
>If you want to say that computers do not play chess that is beautiful to you
>then I cannot possibly disagree, because beauty is totally subjective.

i would say again that computers do not play as humans do
which for me renders the current day status of chess programming as
uninteresting
for me,if i had a program that played 1000 points lower then the current elo
leaders ,but emulated more closely how a human conjurs up a move..now THAT would
be interesting!
Steve




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