Author: blass uri
Date: 03:36:51 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 05:52:55, odell hall wrote: >On November 19, 1999 at 00:15:36, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>I was wondering how strong computer chess programmers are. >>On average, are they masters, experts, class A players or lower? >>Baldo. > > > I think the Author of Deep Blue is barely 1400, so I don't think it really >makes a difference. I believe that if hsu had some experience in correspondence games he could do a better program. It failed in tactics in the second game against kasparov when it did not see a draw because it did not know which lines to extend. A human+computer+some hours can easily see the draw. Uri I would guess on the average most programmers are below >1700. I believe getting 1700 elo is easier than being an everage chess programmer. I do not think that the decision of part of the programmers not to use at least 10% of the time that they develop their program to learn to be better players is a wise decision. Many make the assumption that because a programmer writes a strong >program then he somehow knows alot about chess. This is ofcourse untrue, what >he knows about chess programming. I do not make the assumption that you must know a lot about chess to write a strong program but I belive that knowing more about chess can help you to write a better program. > Another programmer in this thread made a very >interesting point, that the thinking involved in playing high level chess, has >nothing to do with programming a computer to play good chess. I do not agree. I am not a master but I am clearly better than 1700 and one of the things that helped me to get better rating was trying to look at all the options in the first ply of myself and my opponent at tournament time control like a computer(a common mistake of chess player is to overlook the next move of themselves or the next move of their opponents) I cannot do it at blitz but I have enough time to do it at tournament time control. Uri
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