Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 08:55:06 06/29/98
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>No theoretical bullshit, it's clear that all evidence shows how little >knowledge DB has, now it's time to show the audience why it's >so hard for low rated people to program chessknowledge. > >I doubt that Hsu has ever heart of the word 'pawn majority'. >I dropped some day this word among some chessprogrammers, >and they all didn't even know what the word means. Because being >the programmer he's the one who needs to implement so he needs to >be the one that must exactly understand what it is and what it is not. Most 1700s I know have heard of the phrase "pawn majority". Maybe they don't fully appreciate it, but they've run across the term before. Funny that you choose to pick upon Hsu, even though his role wasn't tuning the position evaluation? Murray Campbell was 2200-something CFC (I think to get USCF you add 50 points, so maybe 2300 USCF). He also worked on Hitech before starting with Deep Thought; I imagine he has heard of the phrase "pawn majority". Of course, you also forget that Joel Benjamin worked for a year to improve the evaluation. But you probably think he hasn't heard of the phrase "pawn majority" either. Dave Gomboc
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