Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 13:45:55 02/14/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 16:19:40, martin fierz wrote: >On February 13, 2004 at 11:22:45, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On February 13, 2004 at 10:13:26, Peter Fendrich wrote: >> >>>On February 13, 2004 at 00:28:13, Paul Doire wrote: >>> >>>>Hi All, >>>> >>>>I am interested in knowing the strengths of all who post here. >>>>Whether it is USCF or FIDE.To import chess knowledge into chess programs >>>>seems to require the programmer to be strong or at minimum, their resources to >>>>be strong. Who dares to tell...and dares to tell of those who will not tell. >>>>Some human analysis we see would carry more weight knowing the strength of the >>>>analyst. Do you dare to tell? >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Paul >>> >>>I'm quite convinced that the correlation between being a strong chess player and >>>a strong chess programmer is not very high. It's far more important to be a good >>>programmer than a good chess player in order to produce a strong chess program. >>>Of course the programmer must have rather good knowledge about different chess >>>elements but that is not at all the same as being strong in OTB play. I even >>>believe that a very strong OTB player might have some troubles to lower his >>>level of play to the level of an evaluation function in a chess program... >>>/Peter >> >> Hi Peter >> I think you are just right ... in particular as far as your last >> sentence is concerned. And furthermore: a very strong OTB player >> would most probably be have the tendency to write a [too] perfect >> chess program and this does not work. >> Kurt > >i hope you guys are wrong - if not, i can throw my program away right now :-) > >cheers > martin Just throw it ... :-) If you read my statement more carefully it says *might* have *some* trouble. Not very depressing, is it? /Peter
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