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Subject: Re: Application of Chess Programming Techniques to Other Games

Author: Graham Laight

Date: 09:53:21 04/09/99

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Excellent post - but I don't quite agree.

I feel that chess programmers have focused on only a narrow range of AI
techniques. This makes the technology less generally applicable than it could
be.

It has also often resulted in an un-human style of play.

Astonishing accomplishments all the same!

On April 08, 1999 at 20:03:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>The algorithms used in chess programs could not only be used for games, but for
>many other pursuits as well.  Chess is primarily a searching problem, and a
>difficult one at that.  I can forsee very easily how chess algorithms could be
>applied towards (for instance) finding an item in a database.  How about
>rearranging a DNA sequence with a minimum number of chemical reactions?  Never
>mind the checkers, go and othello, I think the algorithms can have universal
>value.



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