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From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: net.chess
Subject: Re: Machine Chess Strategy Question - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 21:13:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 21:13:57 1983
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It seems that every year some programmer looks at the situation in chess
and says, "It's terrible how hardware is all that seems to make the
difference. Fast hardware means winning program.  Surely somebody can sit
down and write a smart program to win."

They then proceed to write such a program and run it in tournaments.
It usually doesn't do all that well, so in desperation they start taking
chess knowledge out of the program and are very disillusioned to find
the program now plays better.

Someday this trend may stop, but it doesn't seem to have done so yet.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304