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Article 6343 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: barryp@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: 5-step program to AI
Message-ID: <1992Jun22.122851.2996@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 21 Jun 92 23:28:51 GMT
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In article <80810@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> In article <1992Jun20.003223.963@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, costello@CS (T Costello) writes:
>>Tal was once asked how many moves he looked ahead, he answered "Only
>>one, the right one". 
> 
> Reuben Fine once looked ~40 moves ahead "in an instant".
> -- 
> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
A professional go player has claimed to be able to look 30 moves ahead "in an
instant" while another claims he can look 50,000 moves ahead given enough time.

In general however Human experts in Chess and Go seem to know where they are
going to play immediately without analysis in most cases.
Barry Phease


