Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 08:13:09 12/13/05
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On December 13, 2005 at 10:51:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 13, 2005 at 10:33:31, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>Good point, Tony. >> >>Most people suffer from the misconception that chess programming is extremely >>difficult, and that someone who has programmed a strong chess program must be >>a wizard programmer. In the last couple of months, I have received two >>unexpected job offers from employers who have seen my chess program. > >I wonder why you think it's a misconception. > >Do you think you can write a good program without at least being an above >average programmer? This depends on your definition of a "good program" of course. I agree that an average programmer probably couldn't write a world championship class chess program. Writing a program which is withing 200-300 Elo points of the best ones on a single CPU computer requires only very basic programming skills, though. I have done so myself, and I am a far below average programmer (I'm a reasonably competent Lisper, but that's not the same thing). Tord
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