Re: chess

From: Sterten (sterten_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: 01 Aug 2004 17:12:54 GMT

>>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

but "how" practicable can such a program be ?
when it makes decicive mistakes only with a probability of 1:1000 or less that
would be
a good approach and maybe reachable
at some time in this century ?!?

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