Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 20:19:00 08/27/01
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On August 26, 2001 at 16:03:10, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 and Ed makes 2, who shall the third be? Perhaps the third is Bob already!? > > > > Christophe
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