Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:10:16 12/13/01
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On December 13, 2001 at 19:54:18, Roy Eassa wrote:
>On December 13, 2001 at 18:20:28, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 2001 at 17:48:08, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>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.
>>
>>Which is kind of ironic, because Ed is a very strong chess player.
>
>
>Not so ironic, just the difference between happening to have something versus
>having it out of necessity.
>
>(Also, I suspect that a higher percentage of strong chess players who also know
>how to program would be interested in creating a strong program, as compared to
>the percentage of weak players who also know how to program.)
Actually my obsession to create a chess program came from the fact that I have
been constantly be beaten by Boris, Chess Challenger 10 and Sargon II on TRS-80
in 1980.
If I had been a strong player, maybe I would have regarded these "toys"
differently (maybe with contempt), and would have been less interested.
Maybe...
Christophe
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