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Subject: Re: Is it possible to build an engine at 2600 strength in 3 to 4 weeks

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 00:11:24 10/06/01

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On October 06, 2001 at 02:27:19, Tony Werten wrote:

>On October 04, 2001 at 17:30:36, derrick gatewood wrote:
>
>>I was talking to this guy that claims to have built the engine playing on
>>chess.net and it has a 2600 playing strength.  he claims it is 100% original and
>>made within 4 weeks.  I find this highly doubtful,  what do you guys think?
>
>It can be done very easy. You just have to choose the correct language (C) and
>the right boardpresentation. (bitboard)
>
>I have seen it a couple of times and the programmers always used C and
>bitboards. They are also thinking about going multiprocessor (appaerantly very
>easy in C) Even more, in C you can't make any mistakes because these people
>never had the need to test their program, it just worked correct.
>
>And their programs can even become better, since when you speak to them they
>don't know shit about computerchess programming ( just some vague idea about
>"recognizing patters better" and being "selctive" ) Imaging how strong their
>program becomes when they would know what they were doing. But for some sort of
>reason they never stick around very long. Most of the time they loose interest
>very fast.
>
>Tony

I think that the most important thing here is to choose the right IQ (at least
300)

I can imagine that some intelligent unrecognized items can do it even in 24
hours.

Uri



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