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Subject: Re: Who is the better chess program author?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:01:38 12/11/01

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On December 11, 2001 at 23:45:28, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Which expert would be the best chess program author?
>
>Chess expert (master level, not the "Expert" classification of USCF)
>Programming expert
>Game theory expert
>Computer hardware expert
>
>I'm sure there are more fields where experts would be qualified to write a
>strong chess program, but these seemed to be the best candidates that I could
>think of at the moment. Feel free to add another field of study to this list.

{IMO} The best in the world are [in no particular order]:
0. Deep Blue team
1. People who have topped the SSDF
2. People who have won a WCCC or WMCCC

Mostly, they are programmers.  Hans Berliner was a chess expert, but also a
programming expert.  Deep Blue team had GM advisors.

I think, to be successful, you will have had some kind of input from all of the
above.  [Chess expert, Programming expert, Game theory expert, hardware expert].

Probably hardware expert is not as important as the others, but it certainly
would not hurt any.




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