Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 17:36:52 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 20:14:23, Will Singleton wrote: > >On January 05, 1999 at 19:44:31, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>I'm flattered that one of my post has become the basis for a pole question, but >>I believe the former microsoft department head that I was talking about, felt >>that every aspect of chess programs were still unsophiticated (to his way of >>thinking), not just the strength. >> >>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! >> >> > >Did your friend happen to be a chess programmer? Do you know if he was an ICCA >member? Did he keep up on the latest experiments and trends in computer chess? > >Computer chess is a world-wide phenomenon, and relevant research has received >much private and governmental support over the years. Would your friend think >that IBM's multi-year effort to develop chess-playing technology yielded no >"sophistication?" > >What do you think he was talking about? The GUI? > >Will He headed up some kind of R&D involving NT. I really know very little about what he did, other than that he worked for more than 14 years with Microsoft, and was now recently involved in chess coaching. (He hired me to be a coach at a school in Seattle). I may have not quoted him exactly, but he does now own just about every program out there, including power chess for his kids. He believes Chess Mates to be the best for children's instruction, and Chess Mentor for adults. I was 'talking up' Covetka's, Strategy, Studies & Encyclopedia of Middlegames programs to him, but he did not like the demo enough to want to bother with it. I think he talked to me me about SQL databases and how he created some of his own utilities for use in Rebel10. I won't mention his name as my memory regarding all this is not good enough. I've got his basic opinion about it all right though - He thinks there are so many things that can be easily implemented (in all chess programs), that are not yet. Being a chess software addict!, but understanding almost nothing about the programming genius that goes into it, is what makes me surprised at his opinion. (At least initially). While I lived in Seattle, he was a fun person to talk about chess software to, for his fresh pespective as a knowledgible computer person with about a 1200 chess level. mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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