Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 16:05:15 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 18:25:32, Allen Lake wrote: >On November 15, 2002 at 17:00:49, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On November 15, 2002 at 14:34:21, Allen Lake wrote: >> >><snip> >> >>>At the risk of opening another large can of worms, what I think you are asking >>>this community to think about (in this post and others you've posted here >>>recently) is whether the current state-of-the-art in engine programming is on an >>>optimal track. In short, are we beginning to reach the point of diminishing >>>returns in trying to improve brute-force search techiques and should we lessen >>>these improvement efforts in favor of a new programming paradigm for chess? >>> >><snip> >> >>Thanks, Allen, for the lengthy and very informative response. I will try to >>study it carefully later and give a better response, perhaps after others have >>their say about it. >> >>For now, however, I just wish to say that I am not as smart as you think I am!!! >>: ) >> >>I would not presume to try to steer this bulletin board! As I have said many >>times, I am not a chess engine programmer/developer nor a professional >>programmer, and I am simply just not that clever. But I do find chess software >>to be very interesting and that's why I'm here. > >I hope you don't think I was criticizing you in any way. I find most of your >posts to be quite thoughtful and thought-provoking. Sometimes, questions from >the perspective of an interested "outsider" is just what it takes to stir the >conventional wisdom enough to encourage a daring person to think outside the >box, and that thinking-outside-the-box is going to be the source of the next >great innovation in intelligent game programming. > >Perhaps I read more into your recent posts than you intended, but I still think >that a good many of the topics you've touched on could be easily categorized as >"where do we go from here" and "are we on a dead-end street". In a community as >technically oriented as this one, those questions often don't get asked until >it's too late, and I'm happy to see these types of questions come up from people >like you, Rolf Tueschen, Marc van Hal, Thorsten Czub, and several others. To >torture a metaphor, sometimes we are so busy tending individual trees that we >forget to observe the effect of our tending on the entire forest. > ><snipped> > >>This really is a great bulletin board! > >I agree. I wish I had more time to participate actively here. I'm glad folks >like you are here more often than I can be, since you ask a lot of the questions >I'd ask if I had the time. > >> >>Bob D. > >My best to you, > >Allen : ) : ) : ) : ) Bob D.
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