Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:48:29 06/10/99
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On June 10, 1999 at 19:36:24, James Swafford wrote: >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. As opposed to the other programs, which people pretend are not counting beans, but really they are just counting different beans more slowly. :-) >-- >James Dave
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