Author: David Blackman
Date: 01:21:58 01/05/00
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On January 04, 2000 at 15:46:56, Will Singleton wrote: >On January 04, 2000 at 08:36:08, Tijs van Dam wrote: > >>Glad to see that GKJunior is at least in one list not at the bottom :( Sigh! Do >>you guyes have so much spare time, or have you been working on your proggies for >>years? > >All of the programs are at least several years old, at least the ones that play >regularly. Often new programs will come in, play for awhile, then drop out. I >suspect the issue of time is paramount. One cannot compete effectively without >a long period of trial-and-error, learning and fixing, trying new things, trying >old things, etc. It just cannot be done in a few months, or even a year. And >that's just to get a halfway decent program that will beat most humans >regularly. To go the next step, and get to the point where you beat most >*programs* regularly, that either takes serious time or divine inspiration, not >sure which. > >Will KnightCap by Andrew Tridgell was playing at mid to strong club player strength after only a couple of days work on the chess engine. A couple more days work and it was stronger than most club players, perhaps in the expert range. After the huge amount of work it took me to get Desperado to that standard, i was a bit surprised at that. A couple more days work and KnightCap was beating Desperado easily and giving Crafty a tough game. All this was spread over about a year though, since Andrew is normally very busy on other stuff. Look out Tiger, Fritz, Crafty et al. Maybe Andrew will find time to do a couple more days work on KnightCap.
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