Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:43:14 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 would guess on the average most programmers are below >1700. 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. 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. You are right in the overall picture, but there are some exceptions. I understand Chris Wittington is master class player or near that. David Kittinger was or is expert class player. Larry Kauffman, co-author of Socrates and many others, is a master or even IM. And maybe there are others. Fernando
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