Author: Chessfun
Date: 20:56:52 07/21/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 18:05:19, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >Glad to see there's nothing personal going on on your end of the Bob - Tom >equation. > >Bob gets credit for a lot of stuff: > >1) Writing Cray Blitz. Was it the best program ever written? Would it have >performed against modern micros? Who cares! It was there, when it was there, >it won two championships, it got into the news, it promoted its sponsor, and Bob >gets credit for putting it all together. > >2) Writing Crafty. Crafty isn't the world champion, but who cares, it's >obviously a high-end program and it's open source! It's been downloaded by a >zillion people who either want to play against it or learn from the source, and >thousands of people have played against it on the Internet and are playing >against it right now. > >3) Being an Internet authority. He has something to say about essentially >everything technical. He says it not to show how smart he is, or to put others >down, but because he wants to help people solve problems and make their chess >programs better. If you ask Bob a question you get an answer, and it's the best >answer he can give you, and he'll do work to get you the answer. And this is >not just a recent thing, he's been doing this since the Internet came of age and >before. > >4) Researching and publishing. He's published useful articles on Cray Blitz, in >a field where most published articles are not useful, especially early articles. > He's also published several articles about Crafty and about general computer >chess topics such as diminishing returns in search and parallel search. This is >stuff that anyone can learn from and many have. Any computer chess library will >contain articles written by Bob. > >The issue of who should be especially honored among members of our community >should be many-faceted. I think that it is tempting to elevate the person who >has won recent championships or who is on top of the SSDF list, etc. I think >that is a ridiculously narrow view. If you look at overall sustained >contribution, you can't possibly arrive at the conclusions you have reached. > >bruce I just spent 30 minutes reading through this thread.....wow. Top marks for me go to this as usual bruce a well put post. Thanks.
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