Author: blass uri
Date: 14:04:03 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 14:53:18, KarinsDad wrote: >IMO (for what it is worth), I think Microsoft could do a good job creating a >"better chess program". I also think that most people here will disagree with me >on this topic, hence, I think that if you created a poll question on this, most >of the people would probably indicate that Microsoft could not create a much >better chess program. > >My reasoning for why MS could do better is as follows: > >1) Knowing several Microsoft engineers and listening to them, I have come to >realize that there are a lot of bright development engineers there. Obviously, >there are exceptions to this rule, but I think that they have the talent to >build a better mousetrap (or chess engine). > >2) There is a lot of information on the Internet currently (and in books and the >ICCA journal, etc.) that would enable them to catch up fairly quickly, possibly >as quickly as 9 to 12 months. > >3) Microsoft has a lot of resources, money, high speed equipment, and talent. >Just look at what IBM did with Deep Blue. With Microsoft's money, they could >purchase the source for Deep Blue, reverse engineer it, and improve upon it. >They could also hire some of the original Deep Thought/Deep Blue engineers and >possibly even other engineers from other chess engines. I do not think that it is a good idea to hire the deep thought/deep blue engineers I was not impressed by this program Deep blue is better than other programs but I believe that it is better only because it is faster and not because the programmers are better than the top programs programmers. I think that a better idea to hire grandmasters and many workers to define rules when a move is illogical based on database of many games( at least 1,000,000) for example to look at all the positions when the move Bg2-h1 is possible and to define a rule when Bg2-h1 is illogical. The program can use many rules like this and do not have to search all the moves and can do more intelligent search. Uri
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