Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:23:32 11/07/99
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On November 07, 1999 at 23:17:28, James Swafford wrote: >On November 07, 1999 at 21:09:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >[snip] > >> >> >>Lang may have dominated the micro programs.. but he _never_ dominated computer >>chess. The 'program to beat' went like this: >> >>1960-1970 MacHack (Greenblatt) >>1970-1977 chess x.x (slate) >>1977-1979 chess x.x and belle (slate/thompson) >>1980-1982 Belle/Chess x.x/Cray Blitz (slate, thompson, hyatt) >>1983-1986 Cray Blitz >>1987-present deep thought/deep blue (Hsu) >> >>No other programs were close during those time periods, if you talk about >>'micro programs'. >> >>But as far as folks like "lang" go, how much have they _contributed_ to computer >>chess? _zero_. >> >>Slate wrote the 4.0 article in Chess Skill in Man and Machine, the article that >>became the blueprint for _every_ program written. Iterated search, hashing, >>killer moves, tip evaluation, etc. The other names I mentioned did the same. >> >>I look at who 'creates' ideas and then passes them along to others to be >>improved/modified/changed/etc. And I look at who produced _results_. It is >>difficult to argue with the history of computer chess back to the early 60's, >>as the data I gave above can be found in most any good book... >> >> > >[snip] > >By this reasoning, you belong on your own list. :-) >I still think you are being modest. > >-- >James I might have a place on that list, but not in front of any of the 4 names I gave...
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