Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 03:20:26 01/09/00
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On January 08, 2000 at 22:23:28, Arshad Syed wrote: Before writing about exploring other solar systems by mankind with rockets faster than the speed of light (because that's a peanut compared to quantum technology), can you please show me a photograph of what a quantum actually is? >Quantum technology seems to be the next big leap in the field of computing. From >my understanding, it supposedly will be relatively much faster than todays >semi-conductor technology. Probably even a PC based on this method would be much >faster and powerful than todays supercomputers (DEEP BLUE??). Would it be >possible that such a computer would finally play 'perfect' chess - losing no >games, probably drawing a few in worst case scenario? > >Here are just my opinions: > >1.) A chess program/computer is only as good as its evaluation function gets. >While monsters like DB are good at calculations - tactical play, their >positional knowledge - light squares/dark squares, mobility etc. - is below that >of a GM. DB for instance in an earlier version (DEEP THOUGHT?) lost convincingly >to Kasparov. It was only after a year of programming by Joel Benjamin that it >managed to defeat Kasparov. I feel that computers at quantum speed, would find >more time to do extensive positional analysis in the eval function at the nodes, >which would help plug the holes in the program, which currently seem to me to be >more due to deficiencies in positional analysis. > >2.) Even the most powerful computers now are unable in the middle game to search >every single position. As a result some moves are ignored due to horizon effect. >With the new technology, maybe this will no longer be an issue. Add the improved >positional analysis, and the PC programs would be playing at the level of a >World Champion. > >3.) With ply-depth no longer a programming issue, programmers would be able to >focus on other issues such as AI - I mean genuine machine learning, which would >allow programs to even simulate human styles based on methods other than >weights. > >Just my 2 cents.... > >Regards, >Arshad
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