Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:28:26 05/26/02
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On May 25, 2002 at 22:12:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 25, 2002 at 11:01:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On May 24, 2002 at 17:48:06, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Your explanation streghten my conviction about how much a wise guy I am >>>rejecting that temptation from the start and duly getting profit of the efforts >>>of pros. That's what the work division is for. >>>BTW, the question by this pal remember me the questions young journalists or >>>students make to me once and again about how to become a top-notch guy in he >>>field. My answer is more or less this: "live as me 53 years reading everything >>>and writting about almost everything since you was 4 years old". >>>But of course everyone want a fast, easy recipe... >>>So we have an entire industry of sef-help: Chess programming in ten lessons, get >>>writting abilities in 8 chapters, how to become a millionaire, etc. >>>fernando >> >>right, getting a millionaire statistically proven is easier than >>writing your own engine from scratch, especially if it has to >>follow the buggy winboard protocol :) > >Vincent makes a good point. There are 2000 millionaires who work at Microsoft >(for instance) so having a million dollars is not uncommon. To write an engine >within 100 ELO of the top of the SSDF list -- maybe 20 people in the whole world >have managed it. Quite an exclusive club. It's also much rarer than being a grandmaster. We are fortunate to be able to converse with some of those top programmers here in this forum.
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