Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:42:10 02/07/00
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On February 07, 2000 at 09:01:40, jonathon smith wrote: [snip] >ChrisW told me that Crafty has not much code and what it does have demonstrates >a total lack of understanding of king safety. What is it then, that explains crafty's dominating, crushing victory in the CCT contest at tournament time controls -- even shattering the best commercial programs by a wide margin? >ChrisW told me there are two types of chess programmers. Programmers. And chess >players. ChrisW told me that despite manifest protestations to the contrary, >"programmers" really have no idea. Which is why they bean-count. Like Crafty >does. Yes. Why is it that the chess players tend to do so poorly against the programmers? Is bean-counting the best way to program a chess engine? ;-) Or (perhaps) since Bob is a 2000+ player, you include him in the players group. In which case, I do agree with you. You must have *some* strength in chess playing in order to do well programming chess programs. But you certainly don't have to be a GM. In fact, I will be very surprised if any GM has ever written a world championship caliber program. >I believe ChrisW. I'm even more gullible than you are. I clapped for tinkerbell, and I lost my wager about Rebel in Enrique's tournament. [snip]
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