Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:46:11 02/27/99
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On February 26, 1999 at 22:09:32, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>On February 26, 1999 at 13:16:01, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>It is clear to me since several years that being a good chess player is a
>>serious handicap for anybody trying to write a top level chess program.
>>
>>Every rule has its exceptions, so I guess you can find some. But can you list
>>strong chess players that wrote good chess programs? I'm not even sure Larry
>>Kaufman can be included in the list, because he does not program.
>
>Interesting theory, of course Hans Berliner is the obvious exception to it.
Are you sure? Hitech was a nice program, but it was a long time ago. How would
Berliner's program compare to current strong programs?
>I
>believe Chris Whittington may have been a strong chess player also.
If it is the case, it confirms that strong chess players would have a tendency
to include a lot of chess knowledge into their programs.
>Speaking
>for myself, I have had a FIDE rating of over 2300 and my program LambChop is not
>so bad. It is not one of the top programs, but these things take time and it
>has 'only' been developed since 1992/3. Hmm, that was about the time I stopped
>playing tournament chess - maybe you are on to something after all! Certainly
>playing serious tournament chess and developing a chess program are both *very*
>time consuming activities and hard to do at the same time.
>
>As a chess player, there is also a tendancy to try a more knowledge based
>approach to writing a chess program when sometimes simpler techniques are more
>effective or at least easier to get going.
So far, that's right. It does not mean that knowledge based approaches will
always fail, but...
Christophe
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