Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 03:25:09 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 04:30:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 13:44:12, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On July 19, 2000 at 21:24:27, Wayne Lowrance 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 . >>> >>>Dont you have a spot for Dr Rober Hyatt on that list ? I could not begin to give >>>you the correct order except Dr Hyatt has got to receive major >>>attention/consideration ! >> >>Hsu, Lang, Morsch, and Ed all have incredible history behind them. Hyatt >>doesn't. I don't really consider Amir to be a legend (yet) and his name is >>easily replaced with a number of others. Kittinger, Stanback, Bruce Moreland, >>Christophe, Stefan, Uniakle, de Koening; sorry if I left anybody out. But I >>consider any of these guys more impressive than Hyatt. > >The word 'best' can be explained in a thousand different things, most >people don't say a word about what they do in their program. Famous >are Ed and Frans' sentences: "Didn't v/d Herik write about that in 1984?" I never have said such a thing not even close. Ed >A book which only shows how to implement alfabeta, a primitive qsearch and >primitive hashtables (not even sure about that last). > >Therefore Bob is high at the list list. >Followed by John Stanback and Mark Uniacke. >Frans sure is also very high at the list for proving nullmove is that >important. world obviously wants to give credit for a program based >upon number of world titles, but that's not always true. Mark Uniacke >has proven some points i think. Also the speculative play of The King >is really proving some points. > >>-Tom
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