Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:47:24 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 14:36:18, Lonnie Cook wrote: >On August 29, 2001 at 11:44:05, Ritter Rost wrote: > >>On August 29, 2001 at 05:02:29, Derrick Daniels wrote: >> >>>On August 29, 2001 at 03:34:11, Sergei Smith wrote: >>> >>>>I see Ferret got good results during the championship. >>>>Is Ferret the new name of an old program like Quest is the new name of Fritz ? >>>>If Ferret is a new program, where is can you download it or order the CD ? >>> >>> >>>Ferret is a very good Program, but I am afraid it has been surpassed, the >>>driving force of capitalism, has created the incentive for commercial >>>programmers do leave ferret in the dust, this was clearly demonstrated at the >>>last computer chess championship. Where money is not the driving force, there is >>>little progress, human nature i believe. > >First off I am not knocking Bruce's program at all. I do not even want to touch >the statements made as to show it in a bad light ... > >BUT > >I think there is a lot of truth here in these two statements,"Where money is not >the driving force, there is little progress, human nature i believe." I disagree. The first 30 years of computer chess was all "where money is not the driving force". Yet the framework for today's programs dates back to that period of time. I've never made a dime from computer chess, yet for a period of 4-5 years we could hardly be beat. Ken Thompson never made a dime either, yet for a period of 4-5 years he could hardly be beat. Same for Slate/Atkin. > >and the other statement, "...the driving force of captilalism, has created the >incentive for commercial programmers ..." > >unfortunately in my opinion this is true. > >How many programmers would push it that one extra week for the love of the code > I can only speak for myself, but I do this _all_ the time... Otherwise there would be _no_ SMP crafty. That was a pain to write and debug, after I had already done it once years before in Cray Blitz. It was "more than about money"... >OR > >push it for a healthy paycheck > >as William Wordsworth wrote, > >"If his own eyes play false with him, these freaks > Of fancy shall be quickly tamed by mine; > The goal is reached. My Master shall become > A shadow of myself--made by myself." > > > > > >> >>Whittington lives!
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