Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 13:53:38 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 15:51:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 15:29:19, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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 > > > >It has not been disproven. It's jus that experience has shown exactly the >opposite. > >But that's just decades of experience. Almost nothing. What decades of experience? What chess program was created by several (say, > 3) good chess programmers working together? I haven't been able to think of any. -Tom
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