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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 16:49:22 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 11:22:45, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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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