Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:54:45 03/12/02
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On March 12, 2002 at 12:48:47, Paul Doire wrote: >How important is it for the programmers to have a high ELO, >doesn't it help them increase the strength of their programs. > >If a GM had the programming skills of ,lets say, Ed Schroeder or Frans Morsch >wouldn't that translate into a stronger program? Perhaps. Perhaps not. A computer doesn't think like a human. I would assume a better understanding of chess allows one to see better where the program is failing, and avoids teaching the program wrong things. Then again, it may also cause the programmer to let the programs understand things that are useless for the computer. I myself have trouble maintaining a 1200 rating on FICS (ok, I don't exactly try hard either). The only time when that's annoying is when I want to add eval to Sjeng and I have no real idea if it's really correct or not. This wouldn't be a problem if I had a reasonably solid way of testing those changes, but I haven't, so it is. -- GCP
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