Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:40:56 02/10/99
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On February 09, 1999 at 13:49:26, Bo Persson wrote: >On February 09, 1999 at 12:46:20, William H Rogers wrote: > >>By definination: >>Deep Blue is an amateur. >>It is not sold to the public. > >But the authors were paid for doing the job. So they must be professionals! :-) > >So it's a professional amateur program?? These are interesting questions. If you think DB is amateur, I think it also makes sense that a chess program developed by Microsoft is also an amateur, as long as it hasn't made it to final release. A question is whether DB was anything other than a research project, meaning, could the thing ever be sold, but even if the answer is "no" it might not be a big deal, especially in light of the fact that IBM used DB to sell computers. I think that it is professional since the DB guys were receiving significant income for chess programming work. This is a confusing area though, and without much effort some amateurs look like professionals, and some professionals look like amateurs. I don't think it makes much sense to distinguish for awards. It may make more sense to distinguish for purposes of travel support, although the amateur/professional distinction doesn't guarantee that someone who is doing a chess program essentially as a hobby gets the money. bruce
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