Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:49:58 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 10:01:46, blass uri wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 02:35:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On February 20, 2000 at 02:25:32, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>Botvinnik worked for many years on his program Pioneer but had very poor >>>hardware available to him in the USSR. It could solve some very difficult >>>positions from Botwinnik's games but never reached the stage where it could play >>>whole games as far as I know. >> >>The essence of intelligence is generalization, and the ability to generalize, >>however poorly, is built into any chess program very early on. Anyone can >>create a program in under 24 hours that plays a complete game. > > >I do not think that anyone can create a program in under 24 hours that plays a >complete game of chess even if the task is only to choose a random move. In 1987 I write the first version of my chess program for PC in one weekend. It began to play games only a few hours after I started to work. Of course I already had the experience of writting a chess program, but this one was completely different from the one I had written before. Not the same computer, not the same programming language, not the same basic data structures, everything was different. I think any experienced programmer, or even student, can create a chess program in a very short time, and a program that can play reasonnable beginner's moves. It actually happens all the time. Creating a chess program is a rather common project in the universities. A smart student can read some thesis about the subject and quickly write his own program. >Maybe you are right about professional programmers but >there are many people who do not know to create computer programs and many >people are going to fail in the task of creating a chess program that play chess >in under 24 hours even if they know something about programs but did only some >simple programs of not more than some hundreds of lines. Probably it's a difficult task for many people, but still it's doable and has been done already by non-professionals. Christophe
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