Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:13:32 04/25/00
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On April 25, 2000 at 08:16:11, Jerry Adams wrote: > > I'm assuming that since there are only a dozen programs currently rated over >2400+ that it must be extremely difficult to program a IM/GM level program. >Does this effort require Above Average ability in programming? If so Why is it >so difficult? Is it just as difficult to becomne a 2400+ programmer as it is to >become a Grandmaster? These Questions are asked out of curiosity. I think one >tends to appreciate these super programms more when you understand the work >which is behind it. You need the following: persistence. If you give up easily, this isn't the right thing to undertake. It takes time, effort, you will make many mistakes and false-starts, and get discouraged. reasonable chess skill. If you don't understand a backward pawn, or a weak square complex, or a pawn majority, or whatever, then your program can't possibly understand them easily. It might be a symbiotic process, as I am sure that my chess skill (at least the positional understanding part) has gotten way better over the years. reasonable programming skill. You don't have to be a 'superstar'. Although chess programming might eventually turn you into one, over time. I think most anybody _can_ do it. But not very many _will_ do it.
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