Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:39:20 02/02/99
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On February 02, 1999 at 16:31:56, al blanco wrote: >I kind of disagree with your statement: Stategy is based on intuition, >pattern recognition (not the ability to anticipate several moves with absolute >precision) If you agree with this definition it is crystal clear that the >game of chess will be reduced to a mathematical equation sooner than you >think. Actually, I was pulling your leg a little (hence, the caveat in my statement). As for chess being reduced to a mathematical equation, I doubt it will ever happen. For that to happen, we could write a program with no search engine, just a perfect evaluation function. The postulate for this is: Postulate #1 If you have program x with search engine x, than a drastically faster program y with search engine y (presumably on faster hardware) could always be eventually devised which does an exhaustive search 2 (4, 6, whatever) ply deeper than engine x. This means that program x should lose most if not all games against program y due to engine x falling into losing positions beyond it's event horizon. Hence, if program x could lose a game to program y (due to searching and not opening book, etc.), then program x does not have a perfect mathematical equation, hence, a search engine is required if no perfect mathematical equation exists in the program. Postulate #2 Since nobody currently has written a chess program with no search engine whatsoever (to my knowledge) that can actually play a decent game of chess, then it is many years (if ever) that chess will be reduced to a mathematical equation. KarinsDad :) PS. Talk to Dann Corbit on this. He has an idea about fractals, but I doubt even that will work.
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