Not just in sort of mathematical things like chess or math, there are, as you know, programs that can write music.

不止是下棋或数学这类跟数理有关的事,你知道,有些程序甚至能创作音乐

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So how do chess-playing programs, and particularly the best chess-playing programs, how do they work? Well, they play chess the same way you do.

那么,下棋程序,特别是最好的下棋程序,是如何工作的呢,它们的下棋方式同你们如出一辙

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He loved to play chess and he loved to play billiards.

他喜欢下棋,打桌球

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You might think that what a computer, what a chess-playing computer does is just this: it calculates every possible branch, every possible game from here on out.

你可能认为,一台电脑,或一台下棋电脑所做的工作就是这样,计算出所有可能的下法,以及与之对应的各种可能的棋局

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Computers can do other sorts of things of this sort.

除了下棋,电脑还可以做许多事情

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That's how chess-playing programs work as well.

下棋程序也是这样工作的

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I, myself, stink at chess.

我自己下棋下得很臭

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