pattern recognition

[jim]

I'm a novice and know nothing about programming but I love chess and visit the site once in a while. I have a question---I was reading an article in Discover magazine this week about computers that recognize patterns. Is it possible to program a computer that recognizes chess patterns? If the master recognizes 50,000 patterns why not build a machine that recognizes a billion patterns---or a trillion???
Jim

[mjlef]

Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.

Some think that Vas, when he wrote Rybka, took a small part of Bobby Fischer's brain, ground it up and somehow encoded it in his program to get these patterns. Afterall, Ryb is "fish" in Russian, and the "ka" ending means "little". So Rybka, "little fish" might really be a little Bobby FIscher!

Mark

[Milton]

This makes a lot of sense. It explains why Vas keeps it a secret how Rybka got her name.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.

Mark

The "worth" has 2 valid meanings :
x) how much advantage is reaped out of each pattern.
y) how much time is spent to recognize each pattern.
Very important is of course the ratio x/y.

Matthias.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Sure you can. You just have to do it. The hard part is trying to come up with the patterns, and how much they might be worth.

Mark

The "worth" has 2 valid meanings :
x) how much advantage is reaped out of each pattern.
y) how much time is spent to recognize each pattern.
Very important is of course the ratio x/y.

Matthias.

Hi,
When will we expect a new version of the BigLion

[Matthias Gemuh]

Hi,
When will we expect a new version of the BigLion

Hi Doctor,
a one-man project with zero beta-tester has delayed BigLion.
If you search well, you can find, download and test the ChessGUI
(but not in Windows 9x because it limits memo capacity to 64 kB).

Matths.