Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:43:16 04/26/00
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On April 26, 2000 at 11:18:10, Dave Gomboc wrote: [snip] >I think Christophe posted that it might take four years to write a 2400 program. > I'm not sure what rating scale he meant, but I think that if someone is working >full-time on a program, they should be able to have it reach 2400 SSDF in under >a year, provided they have a CS degree or equivalent experience before they >begin. That's just my guess, of course, and it also relies on today's hardware >speeds (e.g. I can easily believe that it would take four years if one started >15 years ago!) It depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to simply write a program that hits 2400, then a year is probably doable. But if the goal is to write a program that will actually compete with the best programs at some point, then I don't think so. It will be necessary to read and understand hundreds of articles on chess programming and try each of them out. By "Write a 2400 program" I am assuming we are talking about writing from the ground up and not simply taking Phalanx or Crafty or TCB and tweaking the eval.
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