Author: Slater Wold
Date: 10:44:52 03/12/02
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On March 12, 2002 at 13:07:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 12, 2002 at 13:00:59, Slater Wold wrote: > >>>If a GM had the programming skills of ,lets say, Ed Schroeder or Frans Morsch >>>wouldn't that translate into a stronger program? >> >>Vincent Diepeveen is an IM. DIEP is no better than say, a program where the >>author is no where near Vincent's skill in chess. (Shredder comes to mind.) > >For this to be valid to your point, Vincent and Stefan's programming >skills would have to be equal. I'm not going to make a statement >one way or another, but it doesn't look like something that obviously true. > >It could very well be for example that Vincent's chess skills _are_ >helping him, but he is simply a lot crappier programmer than Stefan, >so it sortof evens out. > >I know for example that Vincent considers Bruce to be a much better >programmer than he is. Yet their programs are clearly not very different >in strength. There has to be some equalizer. > >-- >GCP Hyatt doesn't play chess *that* well. And at one point, he had the strongest chess machine/program on the market. Hyatt however, (now) gets huge feedback from GMs and IMs. I still think solid programming skills are > solid chess playing skills. As far as writing a program goes.
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