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Subject: Re: Who's the highest rated chess programmer?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:50:38 08/21/02

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On August 22, 2002 at 00:07:40, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On August 21, 2002 at 23:20:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2002 at 22:12:07, Gigi Aragon wrote:
>>
>>>Who has the highest FIDE (or national) ratings among chess programmers? Is there
>>>any event where they play againts each other?
>>
>>
>>Jonathan Schaeffer is a 2200 player.
>>
>>Murray Campbell is also.
>>
>>David Levy was once a chess programmer and was an IM at the time.
>
>still is :-)
>
>>Vincent is a FM at present.
>>
>>Dave Slate was a 2100 player.
>>
>>Marty Hirsch was a 2200+ player.
>>
>>Kittinger was a 2000+ player.
>>
>>Monty Newborn was a 2000 player.
>>
>>There are probably a few I failed to remember...
>
>Larry Kaufman?

I don't think larry actually "programmed".  He certainly worked on the
socrates project however...  but it seems (to my memory) that Don did
the programming itself...




>Berliner was mentioned.
>
>>There are other ways to interpret the question too.  IE Deep Blue had GM
>>players on the development team helping, and they were paid for their help.



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