Author: Will Singleton
Date: 17:53:51 07/24/98
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On July 24, 1998 at 17:26:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >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 Well, I'm glad to learn from other programmers. I may not be the best programmer or the best chess player extant, so for me such a poll may serve to generate responses that can shed some light on a particular issue. I find myself sometimes stumbling around the code, trying this and that, wondering what might provide the means to go to the next level. Anything to stimulate discussion is helpful. I realize that a poll, in and of itself, may have small value to most programmers. But I would tend to support such a poll, just to see what comes out of it. What's the harm? You might remember that some of us here are not professionals, and haven't been at this for x years. It still gives us a thrill, for example, playing on ICC v Ferret, when the eval turns positive in some wild tactical exchange, and then after the inevitable, analyzing what went wrong. This stuff is interesting. Will
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