Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:48:08 12/13/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 12:54:51, Roy Eassa wrote:
>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!)
Right. My point was about the necessity to have a strong played in the team.
The answer is clearly "no", at least in my opinion.
Christophe
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