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Subject: Re: best chess programmers

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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