Author: Len Eisner
Date: 12:09:54 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 14:39:24, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 01:39:09, Drazen Marovic wrote: > >>What is Botvinnik's legacy to computer chess? > > >That to write a good chess program it's better not to be a strong chess player. > >Strong players have too much prejudices about how to write a chess program. > >In order to write a good chess program you must be ready to forget all you know >about chess, and re-discover it completely. Strong chess players have spent >years in learning the game and improving their play, so they are obviously not >ready to get into the process of forgetting everything. > >In the future, it will happen to me too. Chess programming will certainly >evolve, but as I have spent nearly 20 years in programming Chess Tiger, I'll >probably be unable to adapt myself to totally new techniques. I'll become a >dinosaur and young programmers will take over me - and all my peers. > >I hope this is not going to happen tomorrow, though. > > > > Christophe If a bird could design a flying machine, it would probably have flapping wings. It might fly, but it wouldn’t be the fastest one around. I suspect the same holds true for chess masters and chess programs. Len
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