Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:49:13 11/07/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 10:58:45, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Bob: >Everyone of your list, except Hsu, are forerunners and so everybody compared >with them shrinks instantly. Doing the same exercize, nobody compares with >Galileo, newton and Einstein. The first to cope a field and stablish the ABC of >it naturally get something that nobody else, by definition, can get. But then, I >would like to know your list of contemporary -apart Hsu- people producing >importat ieas in the field. I magine you are one of those as much you have gave >brith to some techniques, as everybody knows by no. Whom else? And what they are >trying? >Sorry if this is too much to ask from your time. but today is sunday :-) > >Fernando I can't really think of 'contemporary programmers' that tell very much about what they are doing/have done. A few come to mind, but _all_ are in the non-commercial category for obvious reasons. Schaeffer. The entire Deep Thought group from Hsu to Campbell and including everyone that wrote technical papers on what they were doing. My list was made up by naming people that have contributed far more than they have 'taken' away. When I first released Crafty, I explained quite carefully that the reason I did so was that I had received _lots_ of information over the years from the likes of Thompson, Slate, etc, and I thought I owed a debt to computer chess as a result. I doubt I have 'paid' that debt off yet, based on the years of fun I have had, but at least I have made a down-payment. I think every new programmer ought to have the same kind of 'access' that I had when I started, although not everyone agrees... Ed Kozdrowicki gave me a copy of "Coko" in 1972 or so. Greenblatt gave me a copy of his source program before that. It all helped. I'm quite happy to see a large group of new programmers following in that same pathway... so that we all leave something for the next generation of chess programmers...
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