Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 05:41:05 10/23/02
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On October 23, 2002 at 04:44:42, Travers Waker wrote: >Hi everyone. > >I'm considering doing a Masters (5th year) degree in Computer Science, but only >if I can come up with an interesting topic that can be tested as part of a >chess-playing computer program. I've contacted the local University, >(University of Cape Town, South Africa) and found someone who's willing to >supervise my thesis if I can come up with a suitable topic. He has expressed >concerns about the field of computer chess, saying that he feels that "it seems >to be a very well explored area with little potential novelty." > >I'm not really interested in doing a thesis just for the sake of getting the >degree. I want to deeply explore a topic that I'm very interested in, and >computer chess is the only one I can think of that has the potential to be the >basis of a thesis. It would be better to find a topic a prospective employer finds interesting rather than something you necessarily find interesting. Something that looks good on your resume. Something that looks like it could make serious money would be ideal. A computer chess topic would be far from ideal IMO. There will be plenty of time do the things you find interesting *after* you complete your thesis successfully. Besides if your thesis contributes something new, it should be interesting to you too whether it has a computer chess application or not. At least I would hope so. Good luck! > >Despite the discouraging opinion of my potential supervisor, I believe that >there's still plenty of scope for new and novel research in the area of computer >chess. Much like Mikhail Tal could conjour up tactical fireworks from the most >barren looking positions, I think it's possible to find an interesting topic in >computer chess that hasn't been properly explored yet. > >So, the reason for this post is that I'd like to request the opinions of this >board's members (epecially those of you who have been involved in academic >research) on what areas of computer chess I could look at to find an >interesting, novel topic for my thesis. > >Thanks for any ideas. > >Travers
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