Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:54:51 12/13/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 11:48:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 12, 2001 at 22:33:15, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On December 12, 2001 at 21:14:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On December 12, 2001 at 20:38:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>Well... I'm still trying to find an example of important contribution by a GM >>>>for Tiger. >>> >>>Interesting. You don't use any test positions, or gather data from online play, >>>I take it. >> >>I don't gather data from online play. I have never logged onto a chess server >>myself. >> >>I do use test positions. Do you consider that as an important contribution from >>GMs? > >It's a way of transferring their knowledge into the chess program. I think for >most chess programmers, it is very important in the beginning of the project and >becomes less so as the project moves along. I am working on a test set which I >think will be more helpful in the long run. It will be called "Quiet Test" Using test positions is very different from having a strong chess master employed as part of the team creating the chess program, which I think is more directly relevant to the original question. (I agree it's pretty hard to create a very strong chess program with no strong human input of any sort -- even test positions from human games -- anywhere along the way!)
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