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Subject: Re: chess programmer

Author: Nathan Thom

Date: 23:11:36 02/28/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 01:04:39, Mark Boylan wrote:

>On February 28, 2006 at 23:22:45, walt irvin wrote:
>
>>if so are there any examples
>
>I thought this was an interesting question. So, I dug through some boxes in my
>basement and found "How Computers Play Chess" by David Levy & Monty Newborn.
>It's an old book. I don't know the ratings of the programmers of any modern
>chess programs, but here are some stats from the book:
>
>Program          Rating   Programmer    Rating
>Deep Thought     2580     Hsu           1200
>Hitech           2413     Berliner      2400
>Cray Blitz       2300     Bob Hyatt!    1400
>Chess Challenger 2250     Spracklen     1700
>Belle            2200     Ken Thompson  1700
>Bebe             2200     Scherzer      1400
>Phoenix          2200     Schaeffer     2100
>Novag            2150     Kittenger     2000
>Chess 4.9        2100     Slate         2050
>Kaissa           1800     Donskoy       1600
>
>Hard to say from the chart, but maybe a low Elo is an asset  :)

Excellent, thats what I'm counting on for my engine :)



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