Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:29:19 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 02:34:27, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 01:25:08, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>On November 15, 2001 at 23:10:27, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On November 15, 2001 at 19:56:45, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >>> >>>>Why do you need a great chess programmer to make a great chess program, and not >>>>several good chess programmers? I can understand how this might seem intuitive >>>>to you, but you don't seem to be going on anything more than intuition. >>>> >>>>-Tom >>> >>>Which would you rather have, one good heart surgeon or two not so good ones? >> >>Who would you rather have design your car? One great engineer or several good >>ones? >> >>-Tom > >One great one. I believe there are a few wonderful examples. Hmm, maybe it was possible a century ago for someone to design an entire car from the ground up, but these days, if someone "designs" a car by himself, it's kind of like saying that Gateway "designs" computers. They buy a dozen or two parts from various sources, assemble them, and put a fancy exterior on the result. This is not what I meant, and is not analogous to the computer chess world. (You can not take a move generator from Program A and just drop it into Program B to "soup it up.") I believe that there is enough complexity in chess programs that if you get several good chess programmers to make a new one, they can specialize on different parts of the program and come up with something better than any one programmer could. Of course, this is just speculation, but so far it hasn't been disproven. -Tom
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