Author: Dave Dory
Date: 16:08:04 06/26/99
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Terry, First, Yes, GM's have studied and memorized many lines of opening play, and it helps them a lot in tournaments. Same with end games. I want the computer programs to do the same. THEY analyze, and choose THEIR OWN opening moves. They shouldn't just pluck it from their data files, which could contain the entire encyclopedia of opening moves! I would love to see the computer, on it's own, figuring out KBN vs. K end game, etc. Not just follow a built in data base, move by move. This is just parroting a GM's skill, not developing it's own. In the early days of computer chess, the computer programs needed all the help they could get, so giving them an explicit opening book, table bases for end games, etc. was the right thing to do. Now, that just isn't the case. Programs are getting VERY inflated ratings based on these crutches, which we have laid out for them on a silver platter. Yes, it helps them win a LOT of games, however, I think this ignores our need to learn to add MORE CHESS KNOWLEDGE into the chess programs. A daunting task, to be sure. Secondly, if a fellow is playing a match, against a computer in New York, I think it's utterly unsportsmanlike to allow the computer to access a site in say, Moscow, for advice on it's next move! All very possible through the net, and quite unfair to the human. (Unless he knows he's playing against a whole network of computers). Dave
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