Author: Slater Wold
Date: 13:55:43 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 16:53:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 DEEP BLUE DEEPER BLUE
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