Author: Pete Galati
Date: 17:14:04 11/26/99
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On November 26, 1999 at 18:28:49, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > From all of what I have read here from chess programmers, it seems that many of >them feel identified with their respective engines. > Some of them seem to look their program as a separate entity, always giving it >some human attributes. Other programmers simple seem to look at their program as >a part of themselves, they feel the same a human player feels when the engine is >playing. > Why? Is it simply because they have spent countless hours working on computer >chess? Or has the program really evolved into a separate entity, or even merged >with the programmer? >José. I think what you see is that the Chess programs become somewhat of a Frankestein's monster type of child of the programmers, their creation and evolution are very much an extension of the programmer himself because it's very tangent on the programmer's programming skills and understanding of Chess, the game. So everything that happens with that program, only that one programmer could have steered the program to that point, not that another programmer couldn't have done basically the same work, but the work that brought the program to that point could only have been arrived at with the direction of one programmer. A bit of a finger print. Pete
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