Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:48:09 05/28/02
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On May 28, 2002 at 15:33:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 28, 2002 at 14:47:17, K. Burcham wrote: > >> >> >>I have been curious about what motivates chess programmers. What do they really >>want from their creation? >> >>1. Money >>2. Number one on SSDF list >>3. To Win most games against human GM > >This is my goal... (#3 above). > > >>4. To gain more Fans >>5. To be looked at as number one programmer >>6. Attention & fame >>7. Only to beat their last version >>8. could care less about any of the above---just a casual hobby >> > >There is a number 9. "academic research". What is a chess program capable >of doing? With a parallel search? With more knowledge? With learning? Etc. >The list is long and the work is _far_ from being completed by anybody. I've >always been fascinated by a "machine" doing the intellectual things that a >"human" does when playing chess. I believe that a machine can do better things than the intellectual things that humans do. The fact that it is faster may help it not only to outsearch humans but also to find a better evaluation function. The only problem is to find the algorithm that is good enough to produce the better evaluation function. Uri
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