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Subject: Re: Who is the strongest OTB chess player at CCC?

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 07:13:26 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

I'm quite convinced that the correlation between being a strong chess player and
a strong chess programmer is not very high. It's far more important to be a good
programmer than a good chess player in order to produce a strong chess program.
Of course the programmer must have rather good knowledge about different chess
elements but that is not at all the same as being strong in OTB play. I even
beleive that a very strong OTB player might have some troubles to lower his
level of play to the level of an evaluation function in a chess program...
/Peter




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