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Subject: Re: Do computers think 2.c3 is the best way to combat the Sicilian?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 18:28:11 02/04/00

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On February 04, 2000 at 21:07:21, Rich Shippy wrote:

>Since deep blue used 2.c3 to beat Kasparov, is this the best move for white
>against the Sicilian? What does computer analysis say?


It doesn't say anything if the book is active.  Do you own a computer chess
program?  Computers don't think.  We think.

There is no right way to open a game of chess.  It is,however, possible to get
into a bind at the end of twenty ply and that is why we have opening books. No
computer can do full-width twenty ply searches in the opening.

Computers are dumb!!! They only spit out what we put in.  That means they
manipulate data according to an arbitrary algorithm and spit it back at us.


Sorry to burst your conception of computers,


Tim Frohlick



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