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Subject: Re: chess programmer

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:40:57 03/01/06

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On March 01, 2006 at 13:05:58, Charles Roberson wrote:

>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
>
>>
>>Hard to say from the chart, but maybe a low Elo is an asset  :)
>
>   The evaluation function in Deep Thought was developed by team member
>   Murray Campbell. IIRC Murray's rating was 2100 (expert level).

GM Joel Benjamin was also involved:
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.4.html
http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=2000091




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