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Subject: Re: Knowledge based program?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 15:53:00 05/03/99

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On April 30, 1999 at 19:58:45, Alain Lyrette wrote:

>Bottom line is that to this day nobody has proved that one kind of chess
>programming(knowledge-base vs fast searchers)is superior to the other...and if i
>can add my grain of salt i will say that although i have the utmost respect for
>Ed(Rebel)and all his fantastic ideas(2010,GM match.his very good website)i don't
>share with him the premise that you should differenciate a program from another
>whether it plays against another program or against a human..playing incorrect
>sacrifices to "scare" the humans or to get the game more interesting can be fun
>but only that...fun.That being said...what an interesting tread!Keep it up
>gang!Eh...i think my english is improving....

	I do not know what is "knowledge based". To me it is obvious that a program can
be a slow searcher and lack chess knowledge. But I think that a program can be a
fast searcher and have a lot of chess knowledge, too.



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