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This is not at all how computers play chess: > A computer can beat a human at chess not by searching for the satisfaction of making an elegant move, but siftin
by arikrak 9y ago
This is not at all how computers play chess:
> A computer can beat a human at chess not by searching for the satisfaction of making an elegant move, but sifting through millions of previously played games to see which move is more likely to lead to victory.
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- xapata 9y agoNot historically for chess, but it's a reasonable analogy for how AlphaGo plays Go.
- ubernostrum 9y agoA lot depends on the era you're talking about, for computer chess. It used to be that forcing a chess computer out of its "book", so that it had to start relying on move-tree searches much earlier in the game when that tree is still monstrous in size, was a good or at least OK tactic. As the computers got better, and as more effort was put into anti-anti-computer tactics, it stopped being useful, but to say that this is "not at all" how computers have played chess is incorrect.
- yesenadam 9y agoAnd it's also not what they said.