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Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer

Posted by timothy on from the invaders-in-the-human-castle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "X-bit labs has posted very interesting editorial called "Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer". During the last 10 years computers penetrated into various spheres of human life. In this article guys try to find out how well computers can play chess and if it would be correct to say that artificial intelligence is superior to human mind. Interesting read."

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  1. Erm... what's 'intelligent' about chess? by darxyde · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A program implemented to beat a 'Go' master would be more of an example of real, hard intellect. AI developers seem to have an unwholesome obsession with 'minimax' and fundamentally inefficient binary search algorithms - maybe if someone adequately defined a logical abstract for intelligence, we wouldn't be continually bombarded with these borish advances in... Chess...

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