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Subject: Re: The Chinese secret to success

Author: Zheng Zhixian

Date: 02:04:34 07/14/05

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On July 13, 2005 at 23:43:57, Keith Evans wrote:

>On July 13, 2005 at 15:42:54, Philip Z wrote:
>
>>But what's interesting about Chinese Chess is that unlike in chess where
>>computers regularly defeat GMs, Chinese chess engines, using the same techniques
>>as the latest chess engines, can't even beat expert chinese chess players. So
>>I'm suggesting it might be a good tool to do research to improve chess engines
>>since weaknesses are similar to the ones in chess engines, but is far more
>>easily noticeable since the engines are weaker.
>
>Those interested may look at the paper:
>
>http://www.csie.ndhu.edu.tw/~sjyen/Papers/2004CCC.pdf
>
>"The improvements of the best Chinese-chess programs over the last twenty years
>suggest that a human top player will be defeated before 2010."

Sounds like the same over optmisitc forecasts made by International Chess
computer experts during the beginning.

That's said, I'm sure progress will be faster given that researchers can draw
from the relevant experience from International chess.



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