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

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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