Re: brute force and knowledge

[Vincent Diepeveen <diep@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:15 PM 11/30/98 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>> LIttle confused here what you mean to express. 
>> I see clear difference between:
>>   'pattern matching' and 'parallel search'
>> 
>> In fact it is the opposite of each other. 
>
>I'm not the author who Vincent replies here to, but I think that when a
>good player 'matches a pattern', what he can often remember is a certain
>continuation or a small game tree associated with the local situation.
>Therefore, by matching many patterns at the same time (brain probably does
>that) the player is actually performing 'parallel search', because he is
>considering (subconsciously) many game trees at the same time.
>
>Anyway, this isn't probably very much of practical importance, and it's
>just a guess.

It is a wrong guess. A player isn't seeing thousands of moves, not to
mention million of moves, or billion of moves (billions of braincells
available). A player only sees a FEW positions, and thinks out a few
lines, and definitely not done in parallel.

I don't have a split personality, not to mention splitting personality
in billion of things at the same time, all doing the same!

Every neuron is doing a different and unique job.

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