Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 17:05:23 02/13/04
Go up one level in this thread
On February 13, 2004 at 20:00:53, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 13, 2004 at 11:05:45, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On February 13, 2004 at 10:55:11, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>On February 13, 2004 at 10:13:26, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>I agree that being a good chess player is not necessary in order to write a >>>strong chess program, but I think that being a good programmer is also not >>>nearly as important as most people believe. I think it is possible to get >>>very far with mediocre programming skills. >>> >>>Tord >> >>The question is what is the definition of being a good programmer. >>You consider yourself as not good programmer but other people may consider you >>as a good programmer. > >I think you must be pretty smart to succeed. If you are not a great programmer >and not a great chess player, those difficulties can be overcome with time and >effort. The amount of effort needed will be proportional to the intelligence of >the programmer. So I think someone with an IQ of 100 could write a good chess >program, but it would take years and years. Someone with an IQ of 150 could >write one much faster (given the same knowledge base and volume of data that had >to be learned). > >It's going to be like any other mental activity. >1. How smart you are >2. How much you already know about chess >3. How much you already know about programming >4. How much effort you apply to the problem and learning domain knowledge > >Are all going to be important. >Someone who is >1. Stupid >2. Ignorant about chess >3. Ignorant about programming >4. Lazy in effort > >Is not going to succeed. > >The most important thing will be to write good algorithms. But you have to have >enough knowledge added so that the program won't play like an idiot. If you >tell your program to do nothing but count wood, 19 plies won't be enough to beat >anyone. Have you ever heard the story about the tortoise and the hare? : ) Bob D.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.