Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:49:23 06/29/98
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On June 29, 1998 at 11:55:06, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>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 You put 100 GM's around a table and ask them to make an algorithm that sees pawn majority. 2 years later they will have written excellent books, but still not have the algorithm. Vincent
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