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Subject: Re: Brute force base of good game. True or not true?

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:04:56 09/07/99

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On September 07, 1999 at 09:36:03, Claudio A. Amorim wrote:

>On September 07, 1999 at 06:40:02, leonid wrote:
>
>>Brute force search is the base of good chess game. True or not true?
>
>Hi, Leonid,
>
>Deep Blue team think so, but I think they're far to prove it. In fact, Deep
>Blue's game has not a distinctive character, except being extremly efficient. on
>handling highly unbalanced positions. The top microcomputer programs (like Rebel
>and Hiarcs), albeit much slower, display much more chess knowlegde than Deep
>Blue. They surely handle positional play much better.
>Brute force, in computer chess, is one of the means to achieve good results, but
>must be mixed with other techniques, to deliver great chess.
>Imagine Deep Blue without an openings book or a tablebase... It would play as
>badly as any club player.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Cláudio.

You do not have deep blue so I do not understand how do you know so much about
it.

Uri



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