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Subject: Re: How will engines get much better?

Author: James Swafford

Date: 16:36:24 06/10/99

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On June 10, 1999 at 16:26:41, blass uri wrote:

>
>On June 10, 1999 at 15:24:02, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
>
>>Can today's best chess engines become significantly more powerful through
>>software improvements alone, or have we reached the point where hardware
>>improvements are necessary to make that next BIG step?
>
>They can become significantly better.
>
>The program of today are stupid programs and most of the time calculate
>illogical lines.
>
>Uri

Verse only calculating logical lines?  How does a program
know what is logical and what isn't without doing some
calculating?  And if it did know a line was logical, why
search it at all?

This is the nature of brute force, even with selectivity.
Bean counters will count.

--
James




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