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Subject: Re: Dedicated test move for Steve B...and a Question

Author: Ray Rogers

Date: 16:10:27 02/27/06

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On February 27, 2006 at 18:18:04, Rob Basham wrote:

>On February 27, 2006 at 16:42:18, Ray Rogers wrote:
>
>>On February 27, 2006 at 15:22:46, Steve B wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>>are you saying that you entered the position ..never asked the computer to move
>>>>or think about the move..pressed the hint button right after you entered the
>>>>position and it returned a hint of Bxh6?<<<<<
>>>>
>>>> ............YES!
>>>
>>>
>>>not that is news to me Rob
>>>this can only mean that as soon as you enter the position the computer is
>>>already calulating??
>>>
>>>never heard of this but i suppose its possible
>>>
>>>Live and Learn regards
>>>Steve
>>
>>Hi.
>>
>>Is it not correct that Kittinger's programs rely a lot on pattern recognition?
>>Could this just be a good example of this?
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Ray.
>
>Hi Ray...Yes, I think you are correct here....
>it could just be "position recognition" because there has not been any
>calculations made yet at this point...
>
>regards and thanks
>
>Rob

When you think about it, for a machine to accept any position as legal it must
do some sort of search at once. I think this makes sense?

Cheers.

Ray.



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