Re: chess

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 16:28:15 GMT

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:01:41 GMT, Tim923 <tws0923@verizon.net> wrote, in part:

>Could there be a practical
>algorithm?

Unlikely, because there are too many possible moves in chess.

Of course, if you define 'practical' as 'being capable of being executed by a
large, powerful computer', as opposed to 'being carried out by a human player in
his head', there just might be... soon.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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