Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:27:38 02/26/99
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On February 26, 1999 at 15:41:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On February 26, 1999 at 13:16:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>[snip]
>>It is clear to me since several years that being a good chess player is a
>>serious handicap for anybody trying to write a top level chess program.
>>
>>Every rule has its exceptions, so I guess you can find some. But can you list
>>strong chess players that wrote good chess programs? I'm not even sure Larry
>>Kaufman can be included in the list, because he does not program.
>Well, I don't know how strong his program was but Mikhail Botvinnik was a pretty
>fair chess player, so I hear.
>;-)
And he is a very good example of what I said: trying to built a human-like
program, Botvinnik has never succeed. There has been a big polemic around his
program, which never showed in a tournament. Anyway it was not a very good
program, or else it would have been the author's interest to participate in a
computer event.
What I am trying to say is that so far we do not really know how to "program"
intelligence, and the methods we are currently using to write good chess
programs look rather like good mechanics, but only mechanics.
Or maybe to play chess does not require intelligence at all but just fast
mechanics?
Or the right chess knowledge is not difficult to understand so you don't have to
be an excellent chess player yourself to explain it to a computer?
Christophe
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