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

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 11:07:08 08/20/02

On August 20, 2002 at 10:54:20, Sune Fischer wrote:

>Half the programmers here should get a Ph.D if this is the standard for a
>masters.

As Marc Boulé pointed out in another post, a master's thesis doesn't require any
new material. A PhD requires completely original work. I think people are mixing
up the requirements and thinking it all has to be new material. That's just one
thing I've noticed in reading all of the replies. I've never written a master's
thesis, or read very many, so I can't personally say whether this is a good one
or not.

I enjoyed it though, even if I already knew most of it. I think regardless of
whether or not it's a good thesis, it is a good paper. In reading it I got many
new ideas (not directly from the paper, but it made me think of new ideas). I
think it is similar to how they recommend that you re-read a chess book after
every 200 point ELO improvement, because you will understand things you didn't
pick up on before.

Anyway, according to the requirements put forth by Marc Boulé in his response,
this sounds like a master's thesis to me, but not a PhD thesis.

Russell

Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 12:11:32 08/20/02
- Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 12:45:29 08/20/02
  - Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 14:07:19 08/20/02
    - Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 14:49:21 08/20/02
      - Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 15:24:43 08/20/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 00:32:10 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 01:08:27 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 01:29:51 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 03:48:57 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 04:14:59 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 05:27:44 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 07:04:53 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 08:52:06 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 10:49:06 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 11:21:15 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 12:06:32 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 15:55:53 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Albert Silver 10:38:13 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Miguel A. Ballicora 11:14:00 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Albert Silver 11:34:55 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 03:20:00 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 06:55:38 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 08:23:14 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 13:00:00 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Mogens Larsen 16:19:24 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Uri Blass 07:13:00 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 07:33:13 08/22/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's The Steffen Jakob 05:42:46 08/21/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Dann Corbit 15:32:06 08/20/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 15:45:01 08/20/02
        
        Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Dann Corbit 15:49:53 08/20/02
    - Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Russell Reagan 14:16:52 08/20/02
      - Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis Sune Fischer 14:40:48 08/20/02

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