Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search

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Re: Grandmaster-Level Chess Without Search

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towforce wrote: Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:09 pm People have been looking to search and to tablebases to solve chess.

Wrong place: the solution will come from knowledge. Human skill will as well: later this century, using the new knowledge and the new techniques for teaching it, the children will go from beginner to well into the 2000s elo level in just a few months.
I am reminded of the quote
“Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.”
― R. Spielmann

It still holds true. Engines still need help with openings, and certainly there are some positions wherein human intuition wins, and engines begin to diverge from their choice to opt for the one played by a GM after the move is replayed in analysis.