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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 08:15:37 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 11:11:17, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 10:54:20, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>>Ok guys, I'm sure you are kind enough to show us your thesis, so we can discuss
>>>them a bit?
>>
>>It isn't finished yet, but I'll make it public when it is, just don't see myself
>>posting it here, as it's not related to chess one bit...
>>
>>>And your chess engines, I'm sure they have everything mentioned in
>>>Mr. van Kervinck's Thesis built in, right?
>>
>>Half the programmers here should get a Ph.D if this is the standard for a
>>masters.
>>
>>-S.
>>
>
>You probably forget that half the programmers here already have there Ph.D. and
>you should also consider that everyone of them who has written a decent engine
>has spent at least a year in hard coding and reading at nighttime and has spent
>efforts on research that would be sufficient for a masters for any other topic.
>(IMO)
>
>Andy

True, so you also want to give masters to all the fans of football or basket
ball that knows _tons_ of stuff about that?

-S.



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