What reasonable support do you want? Grandmasters *have* been questioned and observed. It *is* know what they do (examine just a few number of moves), we don't know how exactly they select the moves to examine. What they certainly do know is that they don't examine all the positions a computer examines. And there's a simple proof: take a random grandmaster, playing a random game. Measure the time it takes to make a move. The average of those times is less than 50 years. qed. There's no magic, handwaving or naysaying going on.

Just because you don't know everything doesn't mean you cannot exclude everything. Suppose I know X was in a house. I don't watch the house, but I do watch the road going south from the house. Now, X is no longer in the house. According to your reasoning saying "I don't know where X went, but I know he didn't go south" is not a proof or reasonable support, but merely naysaying of something, because I don't know where X went.

But have you presented any proof or reasonable support that how computers play chess has any similarity to how humans do?

Abigail

In reply to Re: Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl by Abigail-II
in thread Artificial Intelligence Programming in Perl by cjf

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