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Subject: Re: best chess programmers

Author: CLiebert

Date: 02:00:34 07/20/00

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On July 20, 2000 at 01:13:49, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 19, 2000 at 21:05:18, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>my best 5 chess programmers
>>1.deep blue team (deep blue)
>>2.richard lang (all were good + 8 titles!!!!!!)
>>3.amir ban (deep junior)
>>4.frans morsch (fritz)
>>5.ed  (chess machine  and rebel)
>>
>>there are a few that get left off the list ,either they did not win a title or
>>they just could not keep pace with the better programs .
>
>I think the list is much too narrow, and should include (at least) the winners
>from WCCC and WMCCC for each year, and also the author of any program to head
>the SSDF list.
>
>Here are some categories I find interesting:
>
>A.  Brilliant programmer *and* brilliant chess player {in no particular order}
>1.  Hans Berliner
>2.  Chris Whittington
>3.  Vincient Diepeveen
>4.  Martin Borriss
>5. ??

for ex. Michael Borgstädt - if I remember right he played at 2400 Elo
years before...

Christian


>B.  World class programmer *AND* willing to share source code
>1.  Robert Hyatt
>2.  Dusan Dobes
>3.  Thorsten Greiner
>4.  Rémi Coulom
>5.  (shortly) Dieter Bürßner
>6. ??
>
>I am sure there are many more interesting categories like this that could be
>considered.  I think your category "best chess programmers" is so broad that it
>would take pages and pages just to begin to do it justice.



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