Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:04:09 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 00:28:13, Paul Doire wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I am interested in knowing the strengths of all who post here.
>Whether it is USCF or FIDE.To import chess knowledge into chess programs
>seems to require the programmer to be strong or at minimum, their resources to
>be strong. Who dares to tell...and dares to tell of those who will not tell.
>Some human analysis we see would carry more weight knowing the strength of the
>analyst. Do you dare to tell?
>
>Regards,
>Paul
Well, as to the posters, the strongest is probably Vincent Diepeveen, but
really, the correlation between chess strength and chess programming is much
less clear. Hsu, the author of Deep Blue, was asked which was more important in
his work as its developer, and he firmly said being a better programmer was more
important.
Still, another approach which pretty much confirms that is to take the top
programs of the day and see how strong the authors are. FOr example, I'd be
willing to bet that Vincent could beat the authors of Fritz, Shredder, Hiarcs,
Tiger, and Junior, all in a simul, and yet (no disrepect meant Vincent) there is
NO QUESTION whether Diep is of similar strength.
Albert
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