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Subject: Re: 3 top authors in one room for a year

Author: Jude North

Date: 12:43:36 08/27/01

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On August 26, 2001 at 16:02:22, Charles Young wrote:

>Only one would walk out of the room alive :)

Can you speculate on which one it might be and do you think he will have eaten
the other two?

>
>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.)



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