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From: tjones%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thouis Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Another chess question
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.091618.2770@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:16:18 GMT
References: <2041@seti.inria.fr> <1991Mar26.162003.7849@swift.cs.tcd.ie> <21622@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: tjones%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu
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In article <21622@shlump.nac.dec.com>, billmers@merlyn.enet.dec.com (Meyer Billmers) writes:
> >One grandmaster (who ?) that was asked how many moves he used to look ahead
> >replied 20 and another grandmaster (Reti ?) replied 2 !
> 
> And then there's the quotation, circulating recently in rec.chess and
> attributed
> to the grandmaster Tartakower. When asked how many moves ahead he looked, he
> replied "One; the best one."

	This doesn't seem too odd.  It all depends on how good of a
board evaluation function they are "using."  If a person could tell
exactly how good a certain position was (relative to the others) he
would only need to look ahead one level, at each possible board, and
move the one that looks best.

Ray Jones
tjones@peruvian.utah.edu