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

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:06:38 09/07/99

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On September 07, 1999 at 14:52:55, leonid wrote:

>On September 07, 1999 at 07:26:29, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 1999 at 06:40:02, leonid wrote:
>><snipped>
>>>Brute force search is the base of good chess game. True or not true?
>>
>>Not true.
>>There are positions when humans can see more than chess programs because
>>programs do brute force search and humans do selective search.
>>
>>Uri
>
>If it is so, the reason for this is that the brute force search is limited
>for now up to 10 plys, more or less. When good computers could do this up to
>20 plys, all the "human feeling" will be overpassed. Then the only good player
>will be the computer itself. Human will drop this game with the disgust,
>overwhelmed by paintful "complex of inferiority".
>
>Leonid.


1)computers may be better only because they are faster but not because brute
force is good for chess.
2)There are cases when humans can see 60 plies by selective search(in
correspondence games) so 20 plies are not enough.

Uri



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