Bots - quote from a chessmaster to discuss

[carlo]

I believe the computer that beat Kasparov was programmed by apprx. 8 computer/chess experts but what was telling was the ability to load in a wealth of previous games in which the computer was able to choose the best and strongest play.

There are opening books and game books as for an example the King's Indian Defense-there's enough literature out there to load up thousands of KI defense games and therough a logical deductive process have the comnputer make the best choice. No imagination, no creativity,etc.

The programmers also had the advantage of old Kasparov games. The deck was stacked-he had to play against "a machine" without imagination. In a real sense chess is limited in it's options and the deck could be stacked in this way.

Have the computer play thousands of games and allow Kasparov study its games-he wouldn't lose but you always have the possibility of the most boreing games on record.

Poker is not at all like this but a type of rigidity could be programmed into a bot but I believe you know what happens when you become rigid in poker [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img].

carlo

P.s. The computer didn't beat Kasparov, the 8 Human PHD's and chess history did.