... heuristic methods being used to find effective solutions involves the IBM computer "Deep Blue". One of the reasons for Deep Blue's success is that it utilizes heuristic techniques. Deep Blue is not only the finest chess-playing computer in the world, but it is also the fastest. Using ... heuristic techniques Deep Blue can conduct the most extensive searches analyzing more possible positions. The ability to do more searches gives the computer a wider array of moves to choose ... from and therefore a greater chance of choosing the optimum move. There are four basic chess values that Deep ...

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... Gary Kasparov and "walking" away with a rating of 3200 compared to Kasparov's rating of 2800 in 1992 Deep Blue and its team proved a lot of people wrong. As sophisticated as chess is, Deep Blue took this game and developed a strategy with precise calculations. In any one turn Deep Blue would do a 20 billion-move search and move accordingly. Deep Blue "reduced ... chess to a problem in pure computation rather than one of judgment and intuition." In the counter argument to functionalism it is easy to see that Deep Blue is not a "living entity" ... but a very well programmed computer. The...

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... movies. Since the age limit for R-rated movies is 17, I am proposing a similar age restriction for violent video games"(Muller). With the age of computer technology expanding exponentially, the real life feel of these games will only be surpassed with the addition of a climate-controlled room with a moving chair to ... Germany, but we never outlawed Chess, why is that? It was a tool, Hitler used to kill thousands of people. In fact, people are now teaching Smart Computers to play chess and beat humans. Yet, we fear kids with guns, when we have Super Computer that can beat Chess Masters. ...

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