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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