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Subject: Re: How Greedy is your Program? Good Positional Test!

Author: Mark Young

Date: 22:25:24 04/16/99

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On April 16, 1999 at 23:01:40, Steve wrote:

>I'm a bit puzzled.  Doesn't "positional understanding" require the ability to
>conceptualize, meaning that no existing programs -- no matter how strong -- can
>really have any "positional understanding?"  Or has the art advanced beyond
>that?

Forget what you have heard from chess players and most book about "positional
understanding" Then ask yourself what is "positional understanding"?

You know your have the right answer when you figure out that a program does not
have to conceptualize to have "positional understanding"



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