Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 02:54:05 12/12/01
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On December 12, 2001 at 00:33:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On December 12, 2001 at 00:01:38, Dann Corbit wrote:
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>>On December 11, 2001 at 23:45:28, Russell Reagan wrote:
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>>>Which expert would be the best chess program author?
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>>>Chess expert (master level, not the "Expert" classification of USCF)
>>>Programming expert
>>>Game theory expert
>>>Computer hardware expert
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>>>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.
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>>{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
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>>Mostly, they are programmers. Hans Berliner was a chess expert, but also a
>>programming expert. Deep Blue team had GM advisors.
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>>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].
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>>Probably hardware expert is not as important as the others, but it certainly
>>would not hurt any.
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>The least important kind of experts from the list above are the chess experts.
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>Yes, sorry.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, i.e. it's possible for something to
be the "least" while still being vitaly important, it's just that other things
are even more vitaly important. ;-)
I agree that chess knowledge isn't essential in order to write a decent chess
program, but that doesn't mean that having chess knowledge wouldn't make it even
better or easier to write. For example, computers are generally weak in the
area of long term strategic planning. Maybe if more grandmasters wrote chess
programs (assuming they were strong in the other areas of course!) this aspect
could be tackled more. i.e. how does a programmer program "planning"
functionality if they're not very good at it themselves?
Also, chess knowledge must help while testing a program. e.g. if it loses a
game, where did it go wrong?
I would have thought that "computer hardware expert" would have been the least.
Gordon
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