Author: blass uri
Date: 03:45:57 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 01:56:01, Poschmann 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. > >One year ago I was very angry at my bad chess knowledge. At this time I got a >nice book in german "Schach am PC" (Chess on PC) from Frederic Friedel and some >other authors (for example Chrilly Donninger). My idea was to improve my own >chess playing strength by writing a chess program. Very soon I found out, that >this idea was completely false. Alpha beta and other well known algorithms have >nothing to do with the way of thinking by good players. Most of their knowledge >is "hard wired" in their head, created in their childhood. They cannot explain >how they find out good moves. In the book mentioned above I found the nice >sentence: "The only persons, who cannot write a chess program are grand >masters." Currently I think that is true. If you write a chess program, you have >not enough time to train yourself. I understand that you have less time to train yourself when you write a chess program but I do not understand the reason grandmaster cannot write a chess program. I think that they can stop playing chess if they want and start writing a chess program. Uri
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