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Article #5880chess as AI (was: A Lisp version of the "Enlarged gnuchess book")
From: Bill Trost
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 21:14
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 21:14
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In article <SJE.92Jan15105717@xylos.ma30.bull.com> sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards) writes: ... Note the following (faulty) syllogism: A) Chess programs are the most popular AI programs. B) Lisp is the most popular AI programming language. Therefore: C) Chess programs using Lisp must be fairly numerous. Chess programs are not "AI" in the traditional sense. Until some of the work on Deep Thought(?), chess programs did nothing but a very simple tree-generation, choosing the best move of all possible (using a little clever alpha-beta pruning to reduce the search). There is very little "intelligent" about it -- although it certainly is artificial! :-) Thanks for the lisped chess openings. That could certainly come in handy. -- Bill Trost <trost@reed.edu> I'm a .sig virus -- join in the fun, add me to Reed College Systems Manager yours, watch me evolve!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,26834735d9e2fb79,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-17 13:22:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!reed!romulus!trost From: trost@romulus.reed.edu (Bill Trost) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: chess as AI (was: A Lisp version of the "Enlarged gnuchess book") Message-ID: <TROST.92Jan17131402@romulus.reed.edu> Date: 17 Jan 92 21:14:07 GMT Article-I.D.: romulus.TROST.92Jan17131402 References: <SJE.92Jan15105717@xylos.ma30.bull.com> Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: gnu Organization: Reed College Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com's message of 15 Jan 92 18:57:17 GMT