Author: Alejandro Dubrovsky
Date: 07:56:48 05/29/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 15:24:14, Dann Corbit wrote: >>8. could care less about any of the above---just a casual hobby > >Nobody who tries to write a chess program can be casual about it. i'm not sure about this. casual hobby was definitely how i wrote mine for a long time, until i started reading computer-chess club and somehow, someone else downloaded it. since that time, it's been more of a distraction to my other activities. But i really like the following three: >12. People write chess engines because it is interesting to write a machine >algorithm that can out-perform the one who wrote it. > >13. People write chess engines because it pushes the envelope of programmming >technology. Search theory, AI, all sorts of wonderul tricks. > >14. People write chess engines because they want to find out if they can do it.
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