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Subject: Re: How about the reverse?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:09:05 06/18/03

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On June 18, 2003 at 05:52:55, Hans van der Zijden wrote:

>On June 17, 2003 at 19:12:10, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>My guess for my own Elo is around 1000 - I am fighting together with Scott >Gasch (Monsoon) for the title: Biggest gap between
>>chess strength and programmers - strength... :) Anyway I believe that I know
>>still more from chess (which is not much) then Quark - but I have simply
>>tactically absolutely no chance...
>>
>>Greets, Thomas
>
>
>What is the biggest difference in strength where the programmer is better? I
>have 1773 elo and I estimate my program (Gadget) at about 1450. Can anyone do
>better? Maybe there is a Grandmaster who thought it would be easy to create a
>strong chessprogram, with all the knowledge he has, and then quit programming,
>because he was frustrated not being able to improve it after he taught it how to
>move.

I think the man was called Botwinik. IIRC He once created something that was at
best a legal move generator.

Tony

>
>Hans.



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