Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 05:14:24 03/23/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 23:12:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 22, 2001 at 22:39:31, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On March 22, 2001 at 20:52:37, Mike S. wrote: >> >>>On March 22, 2001 at 19:55:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>(...) Considering the population of the countries >>>>and the number of programmers writing excellent chess programs, the >>>>proportion s as enormous as the previously mentioned GM proportions. >>>>Does anyone have any sort of explanation as to why this is so? Educational >>>>system? Cultural focus on this topic? What? >>India comes also to mind. >India is interesting because it has a large number of good chess players and a >large number of good programmers but no (known -- at least by me) chess >programmers. Well, curiously enough, some of the top Chessplayers in my Varity [In Singapore] are Scholars from India. About 6 months ago when I checked the Library computers with the key word Chess computer, I found no less them 4 Chess programs and a few other Chess related projects done for their final year project. And the authors were all Scholars from India.. Though I knew some of them personally from playing/organsing Chess tournaments, I wasn't aware that they were working on Chess programs untill they graduted, otherwise I would have told them about Winboard... Or perhaps they knew, but prefered to work on their own GUI.. I have no idea how strong the programs were, but from their report I gathered that it was probably somewhat around 2000.. Anyway, my Univesity might be a unique case, but given that Indians make up less than 1% of the University's population in the EEE course, it probably means that there are even more Computer Chess programmers in India itself..
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