Author: leonid
Date: 18:25:07 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 15:13:06, Peter McKenzie wrote: >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. > >No, really, you have it wrong. >It is that people with a last name starting with 'B' have trouble creating a >strong program. Its obvious: Botvinnik, Berliner etc etc > > >> >>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. > >More important than this minor detail is that people with a last name starting >with 'B' usually think too much about the *B*ishop, often giving it a much too >high score in the evaluation funciton. > >> >>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 Thanks for good wording! You make me almost felt from my chair. I laughed like crazy for few minutes. Leonid.
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