Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:00:51 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 17:48:27, Miguel A. Ballicora 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 >>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 > >9. "Pick up chicks" (date women) > >Miguel >PS: At least, according to a character (a talking statue of a greek philosopher) >from a famous comic strip in Argentina thinks that _everything_ that men do is >with the purpose of "picking up chicks". I do not see how computer chess would >escape from this universal theory :-) When I discuss computer chess with my wife, I can tell you that it hardly serves as an aphrodisiac in that case. Similarly with math and computer science. I guess we can call those failed experiments, then. ;-) Or perhaps, it is a means to more effective poultry lifting?
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