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

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 09:01:39 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 11:28:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 11:23:25, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>Probably true, but it's exactly the (own) research I miss in this paper. It
>>resembles more a collection of other peoples work. ( I've read quite a few )
>>
>>Nice for someone who wants to start writing a chess engine, but it has nothing
>>to do with a thesis.
>
>It's my understanding that for a masters, the amount of own contributions
>is allowed to be minimal. (Contrary to a PhD)

I was told by my supervisor that my thesis sould be about 150 pages, of those
about 50 can be 'old news'.
They allow these 50 pages for background information, and for me to prove that I
have actually read and understand the basic concepts for what the thesis is
about. Also it is nice to give the reader some introduction into the field of
your study (even physicists don't know everything about everything:).

Then I'm allowed about 30 pages of graphs and data, the remaining 70 pages is
expected to be original reasearch.

I was not under the general impression this stardard is exceptionally high for a
masters.

-S.

>--
>GCP



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