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From: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Computer chess
Message-ID: <26892@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Date: 13 Feb 91 18:59:07 GMT
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Reply-To: turner@webb.psych.ufl.edu (Carl Turner)
Organization: University of Florida Psychology Department
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What is the current level of expertise in the best chess playing machines?
Is the current machine champion still at CMU?  And (for anyone familiar
with the current chess efforts) how would you characterize the emphasis
in making machines play better chess--faster machines, better algorithms
to reduce search, storing patterns of "book moves," etc?

The reason for my asking: in a recent AI class several people insisted
that machines are playing at "grand master" level.  Is this the case?

Thanks for any information you can provide.


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