Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 08:22:45 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 10:13:26, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>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
>believe 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
Hi Peter
I think you are just right ... in particular as far as your last
sentence is concerned. And furthermore: a very strong OTB player
would most probably be have the tendency to write a [too] perfect
chess program and this does not work.
Kurt
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