Author: Jari Huikari
Date: 12:20:32 09/28/99
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On September 28, 1999 at 14:23:35, Matt Agajanian wrote: >What about machines such as Fidelity "Chess Challenger 7", Saitek "Kaspasrov >GK2000", Novag "Emerald", Excalibur "Kasparov 2294"? How do they get their >"intelligence"? They try all possible series of moves how the game can go on. And choose a move which seems to lead to best positions for them. Human players think only about sensible moves, but computer calculates everything that can happen. The most stupid moves too. But because computers can try thousands of possible moves in a second, they can find many good moves too. This was VERY RAW explanation of how they work. But they "think" like a human who makes some moves, looks at the position after them, and then take the moves back. Decision which moves are good and which are bad are made according to scores of the moves. Taking opponents pieces increase the score, loosing pieces gives minus points. Also there is given some numeric values for passed pawns, doublepawns etc. And of course a very big score for finding a mate. Computer does not THINK. It CALCULATES. Jari
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