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Subject: Re: what do chess programmers really want from their programs

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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