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Subject: Re: What happened to Hitech?

Author: Gareth McCaughan

Date: 05:36:12 10/09/99

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[Ratko Tomic:]
> Well, the review did make it sound weird. But, one never knows. What if some
> day, when computers have at least part of the tablebase for the initial
> position, or can otherwise practically solve the game with some other
> algorithm not thought up yet, and it turns out that the 1.e4 is sub-optimal
> (or maybe even a losing move). How many decades or centuries did "experts"
> laugh at Copernicus or Gallileo.

"They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Einstein. But they also laughed
at Bozo the Clown."



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