Author: Will Singleton
Date: 17:20:37 01/12/99
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On January 12, 1999 at 17:04:10, KarinsDad wrote: > >Don, let me know when your individually created chess program can consistently >beat Deep Thought and I'll take back my words. > Hmm, last time I checked, I didn't see anything about hardware design in the CilkChess description. Has Don started burning proms? Couple of more points: a theoretical discussion is more interesting when the idea under discussion has some probability of occurring. For example, what will happen if a chess set is discovered on another planet? While this has very little chance of happening, it has a greater chance than does this Microsoft chess business. However, the question of team vs individual, leaving Microsoft out of it, is pretty relevant for chess programming. Progress will almost always occur at a faster rate when more than one person is working on a project, for several reasons. For chess *engine* programming, the benefit probably tops out at two people. Numerous examples abound from the literature. Don, haven't you always had a collaborator or two on your projects? CilkChess, Socrates and Tech? Didn't you benefit from some of these colleagues? It's also disconcerting to discuss something, relevant or not, with someone who names himself after a character in a Elmore Leonard novel. One of the things I like about this board is knowing to whom I'm talking. That is an observation, not a criticism. Will
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