Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:05:43 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
Well that's my point...
Christophe
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