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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Fritz analyses three million moves per second and uses smart software to probe promising moves much more deeply than less interesting ones. This is in contrast to the "brute force'" approach of programs such as Deep Blue, which attempts to calculate all possible moves, relying on massive computing power to achieve deep searches.
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What I think is cool is that this computer uses a refinement of software strategies rather than an escalation of computational power. Reminds me of a project where two universities taught those little Sony Aibo dogs to play soccer. One team utilized strategy and teamwork and the other strengthened the speed and reflexes of the individual players. Not surprisingly, the team oriented Aibo dogs won the match. Does anyone know more about what I am talking about?
What would be interesting would be to see Kasparov team up with programmers to write software that imitated the strategic thought process. Then you could run that software on a big computer. I bet that a strategic program would defeat a vastly more powerful machine that used the brute force only method.