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Subject: Re: Computer Chess version of my post

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 21:26:38 07/12/99

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On July 12, 1999 at 18:33:33, KarinsDad wrote:

>I purposely threw that example in since it is borderline. It is like the example
>of two people playing a game over the Internet by using computers. Some examples
>are easy for one person to state that they are not computer chess whilst another
>person will state that they are. The example of the maximum number of positions
>is one such example since some people would say that it has nothing to do with
>computer chess programs (i.e. chess playing programs or chess databases or chess
>position analysis or chess playing interfaces, etc.) whereas another person such
>as yourself will say that it does have something to do with computer chess (an
>element of chess was calculated with a computer).

Not to pick nits, but this particular question has a lot to do with computer
chess.  People have tried to quantify the chess domain, in order to figure out
how difficult it would be to solve the game.

I can imagine a good article on this subject being published in the ICCAJ, which
isn't to say that I'd read it.

bruce



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