Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:44:15 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 15:48:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 28, 2002 at 15:33:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 28, 2002 at 14:47:17, K. Burcham wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>I have been curious about what motivates chess programmers. What do they really >>>want from their creation? >>> >>>1. Money >>>2. Number one on SSDF list >>>3. To Win most games against human GM >> >>This is my goal... (#3 above). >> >> >>>4. To gain more Fans >>>5. To be looked at as number one programmer >>>6. Attention & fame >>>7. Only to beat their last version >>>8. could care less about any of the above---just a casual hobby >>> >> >>There is a number 9. "academic research". What is a chess program capable >>of doing? With a parallel search? With more knowledge? With learning? Etc. >>The list is long and the work is _far_ from being completed by anybody. I've >>always been fascinated by a "machine" doing the intellectual things that a >>"human" does when playing chess. > > >I believe that a machine can do better things than the intellectual things that >humans do. > I made no mention of "better things it can do". I am simply interested in the question "can the machine do chess as well or better than the best humans?" >The fact that it is faster may help it not only to outsearch humans but also to >find a better evaluation function. > >The only problem is to find the algorithm that is good enough to produce the >better evaluation function. > >Uri
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