Author: leonid
Date: 11:30:18 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 10:53:03, pavel wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 07:56:41, leonid wrote: > >>On September 05, 2000 at 07:36:11, Alain Lyrette wrote: >> >>>After all those years working to improve your programs,refining search >>>etc...would you say that it help you become a better chess player or that we're >>>talking about 2 completely different issues here?if it helped you by how much? >> >>Writing chess program and playing chess have nothing to do. Very popular myth >>pretend that best player write best program. >> >>When you really in writing your program (never mind what) you have less time to >>stay with all other hobbies. This is why previously good chess player can expect >>only that his game will become somewhat weaker. >> >>Leonid > > >I agree with you about "chess playing skill has nothing to do about writing >chess program" but I tend to believe that as you get more and more involved in >to writing chess programs, i guess your chess skill increases considerably. >i have no hard porrf but it seems more logical 'to me'. > >pavel ;) This believe come from the fact that presumably good chess program have some special secret, that other program don't have. If you reached those secrets, while writing your program, even your game will use them succesfully. In reality, good chess program can stay 100% on perfect logic. If somehow we see it differently today, it is due only to the slow speed of our computers and nothing more. To overcome slowness of our computer we must write today data for openings and the end of the game. For the same reason we try to induce some "guessing" into our programs because logic is too slow to respond. Trick of "guessing", in actual chess program, stays only for speeding it, not for making it better. Logic is already created, speed is still something to come. Leonid.
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