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Subject: Re: M$ goes Chess?!?

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 17:29:57 01/05/99

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On January 05, 1999 at 19:35:23, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

[snip]

>>I agree that collaboration is very important. But which do you think is going to
>>produce the better outcome: two world-class leaders in the field (with vast
>>amounts of prior experience and education in the field between them) or one team
>>leader, and 50 fantastic programmers, who know *nothing* about chess
>>programming?
>
>Why do you think that optimal group will be "1 leader + 50 fantastic
>programmers"? I'd suggest something like "1 leader + 2 grandmasters +
>5-7 fantasic programmers + 5 very good testers + 1 specialist on
>particular CPU architecture + 1-2 administrators + 2 fast computers
>per developer + lot of *very fast* test computers". And I'm reasonable
>sure that such a team will produce much better results than team that
>consist of just 2 leaders.
>
>Eugene

Chris,

I agree with Eugene. Obviously, "50 fantastic programmers, who know *nothing*
about chess programming" isn't going to cut the mustard.

Hence, you would use a sophisticated team of computer software developers
including testers, technical writers, managers, accountants (well, maybe one
accountant), researchers, reverse engineering specialists, AI experts, chess
programming experts, and possibly a few of us grunts who are really interested
in it (plus a bunch of people I neglected to mention).

Well, I have to go to the chess club. :) Darn!

KarinsDad



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