Low-life tactics of means to end

[WageSlave1]

Re: but [shurely] if it is

And that is why machines can't play chess

The problem is that you can't program a machine to understand space and tempo in chess like a human mind can. Good human players understand these things, but a machine can only master tactics.

[ScotsPine]

thank you ws, i'll

sleep better tonight since i now know that the abberrant behaviour of KillerChess V1 was the machine's fault and not mine.

[WageSlave1]

Re: thank you ws, i'll

sleep better tonight since i now know that the abberrant behaviour of KillerChess V1 was the machine's fault and not mine.

Aye; not even IBM, with a budget of billions, have managed to build a true chess machine. The proof? They never agreed to give Kasparov a rematch. That says it all. So you did well to develop any chess program; they're fiendishly difficult.

[ScotsPine]

if you are interested in that sort of thing,

[and who isn't? :\ ] check out arasan [if you haven't already]. it has an interesting development history.