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by ben_w 21 days ago
> If Stockfish uses a table base to play endgames, does it play chess?

It would be very impressive to watch this, but irrelevant:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22table+base%22&t=osx&ia=images&i...

> If a CPU needs RAM and disk access to give answers, does it "know" the material?

If you need to have a prefrontal cortex (RAM) and hippocampus (disk access), same question. (The answer is "yes, obviously that's fine, why would you even ask").