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Subject: Re: New Yorker computer chess article

Author: Chrilly Donninger

Date: 01:40:12 12/12/05

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On December 11, 2005 at 20:00:48, Jon Dart wrote:

>The latest New Yorker magazine has an article on
>computer chess - there are some comments from
>Chrilly Donninger, Amir Ban, and others. It is
>not very technical, though. It's a general magazine
>so I wouldn't expect that, but I think they could
>have done better at explaining why recently programs
>have gotten better - what they do say about
>this makes it sound more mysterious than necessary, IMO.
>
>--Jon
The New Yorker is a general magazine and there are of course no technical
details. Well, a few lines of the Hydra-FPGA-code, but I do not publish real
Hydra secrets in the New Yorker. So the code is rather trivial.

The author Tom Mueller has asked several people for months about almost
everything in Computer-Chess. He could have written 3 books from the material.
But then he has to make a story and to skip interesting things like the one
above. I think he has done a good job to explain a non-technical reader the
computer chess scene.

Chrilly Donninger




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