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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