Author: odell hall
Date: 13:36:41 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 08:43:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 I think you can add vincent (author of diep) to that list, as I just discovered last night that he was a 2275 rated master!
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