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Here's a bot that plays perfectly

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Friday, 20 July 2007, at 9:41 p.m.

In Response To: Here's a bot that plays perfectly (Tom Keith)

Well, they did talk about poker.

True that Villa lost while outplaying BKG/Aristotle, but that was 28 years ago. 16 years ago the world had a BG bot that was World Class (on a par with the best humans). I don't think chess got there until six or eight years later, and if I remember right, with a lot more $ invested.

IMO the programming approach difference is not where the emphasis should lie. I think it's intellectual game vs. intellectual game. However, if it does matter then IMO the accomplishments in programming backgammon are more impressive. I don't keep up with the chess bots but wasn't Deep Blue actually a unique, dedicated, specialized piece of hardware? I was playing JF on a ($1000 when new) 60 MHz Pentium in 1996. Ditto TD-Gammon.

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