bucy wrote:

In the continuing quest to see if humans can outpace their electronic creations, the humans have lost another, perhaps decisive, round.

Since you have recommended this, maybe you can shed light on what makes this noteworthy. (I've not studied computer chess in detail.)

What, in layman's terms, are the computers actually doing? Predictive analysis based on lookup tables of all historical chess matches it has played and/or notable chess matches throughout history? If so, it seems that as Moore's Law increases the effectiveness of computation, any logic based game that begins in the same state will be won by the computer as a matter of calculation capacity.

Not quite analogous to saying, "computers can perform long division millions of times faster than a human," but saying, "computers can analyze every possible outcome in less time than it takes to move a chess piece" will some day be true.

I guess the secret sauce is in the "analyze" part of the statement I made. Guess that's what I don't really comprehend.

RE: Once Again, Machine Beats Human Champion at Chess - New York Times