Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:56:50 06/04/01
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On June 04, 2001 at 20:49:45, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On June 04, 2001 at 18:15:03, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2001 at 17:44:56, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>What a major mistake. Strong chess players are not the people of choice to
>>>create a strong chess computer.
>>
>>Berliner did OK.
>
>Frans Morsch
>Amir Ban
>Christophe Théron
>Christian Donninger
>Steen Suurballe
>Mark Uniacke
>Rudolf Huber
>Ed Schröder
>Bob Hyatt
>Johan de Koning
>Marty Hirsch
>Stefan Meyer-Kahlen
>Richard Lang
>
>
>These are the names of the programmers of the highest rated chess programs
>(order of the list).
>
>How many of these guys are "in the top flight of their national chess rankings"?
>
>How many of these top programmers are you going to reject by selecting people
>who are "in the top flight of their national chess rankings"?
>
>For your information I don't think I would get a 1800 FIDE elo rating if tried.
I know for sure several are 2000 or better. Ed Schroder is a very good player
(IIRC -- at least I have seen games of his with brilliant moves). Robert Hyatt
was around 2000 [again IIRC].
Be that as it may [and even if wrong], Berliner was a world champion and also a
GM.
It only takes a single counterexample to refute a statement {mathematically!}
;-)
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