Author: James Robertson
Date: 22:51:26 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 10:01:46, blass uri wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 02:35:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On February 20, 2000 at 02:25:32, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>Botvinnik worked for many years on his program Pioneer but had very poor >>>hardware available to him in the USSR. It could solve some very difficult >>>positions from Botwinnik's games but never reached the stage where it could play >>>whole games as far as I know. >> >>The essence of intelligence is generalization, and the ability to generalize, >>however poorly, is built into any chess program very early on. Anyone can >>create a program in under 24 hours that plays a complete game. > > >I do not think that anyone can create a program in under 24 hours that plays a >complete game of chess even if the task is only to choose a random move. I think you are wrong here because all you would need is a move generator. James > >Maybe you are right about professional programmers but >there are many people who do not know to create computer programs and many >people are going to fail in the task of creating a chess program that play chess >in under 24 hours even if they know something about programs but did only some >simple programs of not more than some hundreds of lines. > >Uri
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