Author: Charles L. Williams
Date: 10:37:26 04/08/99
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On April 07, 1999 at 18:11:33, Adnan wrote: >On April 07, 1999 at 17:20:07, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: > > >>Hi Dave, >> >>The main things that separate Chinook from top PC programs are the hardware and >>the endgame databases. Chinook has tablebases for all endings with 8 or fewer >>pieces, whereas none of the commercials have more than 6-piece tablebases. >>Furthermore, Chinook has gigabytes of RAM so as to hold all these tablebases in >>memory rather than on disk. > >Are there any good shareware/freeware programs for checkers? > >The other day in a book store I saw a book by a Bridge player from Pakistan. >In one chapter he wrote that he offered six million dollars to any computer that >would beat him. Later in the same chapter he went on to say that no one who >plays Bridge seriously responded to his challenge because all >Bridge players know that it is not possibly for a computer to beat the >world champion (him). > >Is that right? Is it impossible to program a Bridge program that plays >at the level of Bridge world champion? It's not impossible, it just hasn't been done yet. Computer science is maybe 50 years old. Math, on the other hand, is thousands of years old, and mathematicians are still discovering new things. Computer game playing is still in its infancy. I hope this bridge player is young, so that he will eventually end up eating his words, and handing over some money. Chuck
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