Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:26:18 07/24/98
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On July 24, 1998 at 15:28:47, Howard Exner wrote: >With all the recent discussion here about how strong computer chess >programs may be and how they still have weaknesses to overcome a >thought about an opinion poll occurred to me. It would be a programmers >only poll worded something like, "Which of the three computer chess >weaknesses are the most difficult to alleviate"? We would first need to >make a list of those weaknesses and through discussions here refine it. >Is the passed pawn blindness a tough one to program or is closed position >strategy an insurmountable task? It would be interesting to read what >programmers view as their big challenge to making their programs better. >Coming up with the list of weaknesses could spark some lively debate. Did >I just say "lively debate"? I don't know if this tranquil bunch is up >for that :-) I don't think this would be useful. What you are asking is for programmers to say something intelligent about their program's ability to actually play chess. That is hard enough to do, but once you get this, why make a survey out of it? "I think my program has a hard time evaluating passed pawns". 29% of people agree that this would be hard to fix. What does this tell me? bruce
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