Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:34:30 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 18:22:32, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 12, 2000 at 18:15:52, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>No, no. Programmers are not avoiding the problem. They are solving it. > >You're fiddling with the semantics :o). > >>Let's say you had to move a heavy rock from point A to point B. You start by >>kicking the rock, which makes your shins bruised and bloody and puts you in >>horrible pain. Then you realize that you can pick up the rock with your hands >>and carry it. Do you think that picking up the rock would be "avoiding the >>problem"? > >No, basically you're asking someone else to remove the rock for you. Wouldn't that be the best way to solve the problem, though? No bloody shins OR sore hands. And the rock still gets moved. Well, if you don't like that argument, look at it from another point of view... Imagine that opening books hadn't been invented. Now imagine that Stefan (to pick a random programmer) puts an opening book in Shredder. Of course, Shredder jumps to the top of the SSDF list and is 100 points better than any other program because it has an opening book. What would you say? A) "Wow!! Shredder can play beautiful opening moves instantly! Stefan is a brillant programmer and opening books are a tremendous benefit to computer chess!" or B) "Stefan is such a cheater. He shouldn't be allowed to use that stupid book and I'm never going to buy Shredder." -Tom
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