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supware

Is there somewhere online where I could study the main heuristics used by Chess computers?  Does anyone have experience playing like this?  It seems it's the optimal way to develop your pieces as the game begins.  Thanks!

Cherub_Enjel

There's a lot of computations involved. A lot of adding decimals, counting squares, etc. It'll probably take you minutes to evaluate each position over the board if you memorize such an algorithm, and a computer works by evaluating millions of positions per current position. 

No one ever does such a thing.

DrSpudnik

You can learn how computers calculate, but you can't calculate like a computer. It would take your entire lifetime to make one move.

MickinMD
sup_bro wrote:

Is there somewhere online where I could study the main heuristics used by Chess computers?  Does anyone have experience playing like this?  It seems it's the optimal way to develop your pieces as the game begins.  Thanks!

Not only would the computations take you a lifetime to calculate, the computers cheat (in less than daily chess rules) in the sense they set up electronic 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. boards and examine each variation or branch on them.

thegreat_patzer
sup_bro wrote:

Is there somewhere online where I could study the main heuristics used by Chess computers?  Does anyone have experience playing like this?  It seems it's the optimal way to develop your pieces as the game begins.  Thanks!

exactly

you know the "optimal way to begin a game" without looking at ANY position.
this is an advantage over the way computer works.

 

if you google this you will find that engines look at vast numbers of positions.  (millions?)  someone brighter can count them.

so the answer is NO.  you can't  play like a computer (no matter how much you try)- and if you take any early middlegame positions- and compute what would have after say 3 moves (6 ply)  you would be totally overwhelmed by all the work.

 

 

Jonschesschannel

Kinda hard (if possible) to play like a computer.

You'll have to:

Incorporate random moves like moving your king for no reason mid-game. 

Stupid calculated blunders if you're playing like a low-rated machine (humans usually miss things not make intentional stupid moves.
Don't feel pressure when your king is under attack or exposed like humans do. Computers know when nothing is there but also don't get scared of pressure, never worry about forgetting fianchettos are there, etc.

binomine
supware wrote:

Is there somewhere online where I could study the main heuristics used by Chess computers?  Does anyone have experience playing like this?  It seems it's the optimal way to develop your pieces as the game begins.  Thanks!

There's absolutely no way a human can play like a computer. 

I mean, the hashing alone would take forever and you are not allowed to use pen and paper or any electronics. 

This youtube video gives you a 1000 foot level on what's involved...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ogK0MIzqk

Rubinus

http://www.spacious-mind.com/html/collection.html