Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 04:51:01 02/14/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 10:35:06, Uri Blass 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 >>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 > >I do not agree with the last claim. >strong players do not need to lower their level of play. > >Even 1500 players know about fortress positions when most chess engines do not >have the knowledge. > >This is not a problem for the programmers so for the same reason the fact that >some programmer is a strong player should not be a problem. > > >If you try to teach a chess program everything that you know you have problems >and the question if you are a strong player or not strong player is not >important and the problem is that you simply do not know to give definitions to >your knowledge. > >Uri I really shouldn't speak for others than myself but I had some troubles with that and I think that a very strong OTB player might have the same or even more of it. Not a big obstacle compared to all others but it's one of them... /Peter
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