Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:51:08 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 10:01:46, blass uri wrote: >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. > >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. By "anyone" I meant anyone who programs competently. It's not that hard, but it's not like you pick some Burmese kid at random and set them in front of a computer and come back in a day and watch it play chess. Let's not get caught up in this and miss my point. The idea that someone can work on a computer chess program for more than 20 years and fail to produce something that can play a complete game, however poorly, is total rubbish. I don't know why that project was so unproductive, but something is really wrong with the whole thing. It had to have been some sort of scam. bruce
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