Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:03:10 08/26/01
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On August 26, 2001 at 14:18:27, Roy Eassa wrote:
>If somebody came along and paid the authors of Chess Tiger, Shredder, and Junior
>(to pick 3 strong programs, with no offense to the other equally strong ones!)
>5,000,000 USD apiece to spend 60 hours a week together in a room, for a year,
>and work together to create a new CB engine that played stronger chess than any
>of their current engines, what would happen?
>
>Would the combination of three commercial competitors be able to create
>something clearly better than any could alone? Would they just argue and
>disagree about how best to implement search, evaluation, etc.? (I'm assuming
>that spoken language is no issue and they have plenty of PCs, compilers, etc.,
>to work with.)
It would probably produce a chess program stronger than any current program, by
a wide margin.
But it would take maybe more than one year.
And I don't think the result would be a common program. The result would be that
either Junior, Shredder or Tiger would become dramatically stronger than before
(or the three of them, or only two of them I don't know).
I can't imagine a serious chess programmer throwing away his program like this,
and it is probably better anyway to let the programmers meet, exchange ideas,
and let them work alone on these ideas (and repeat the cycle often).
I can speak with some experience here, because that's what Ed Schröder and I
have been doing for 3 years now.
We have not even finished experiencing all the ideas that we have talked about!
Christophe
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