I'm not sure sometimes if a person's arguement is for the truth or just politics. I'm going to assume that it's for the truth. Feng Hsu may not know much about chess, but he enlisted the help of one who does. His name is Schaffer if I remeber correctly. He was decribed as a competitive chess player. Feng Hsu dragged him to IBM for the Deep Blue project. This is before IBM. Once at IBM a grand master works with the Feng Hsu group constantly. Let put things in perspective. The contribution of Feng Hsu is that He spear headed a effective chess hardware. Is he alone reponsible for the success of the Deep Blue? I, and anyone with a common sense, doubt it. By the way I read through his book in the Bookstore in couple hours when it just got published. My objection is that he didn't mention any technical details about the Deep blue. Actually Deep Thought as well. So I didn't buy it. Dan Liu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 8:10 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Knowing nothing about it
Sylvain Gelly wrote: You are totally right. For Yizao (one of the author of MoGo), who is a good Go player, this gives a bad "style" to MoGo. As I don't know how to play Go (beyond the rules :)), I don't see any style and I don't care :). I forwarded this to other people in the computer-chess community. The common answer was: Sylvain has the right qualification to be the new shooting star in Computer-Go. Feng Hsu wrote in the beginning of the Deep Blue project a paper "Building a GM-level chess programm without knowing nothing about chess". This was probably a paraphrase of Hans Berliner, the former correspondence chess world-champion who build HiTech. I assume everytime Feng Hsu made a proposal Berliner did not like, he told him that he knows nothing about chess. Feng Hsu had even at the end of the Deep Blue project problems to make moves correctly on the board. It was not obvious for him were the square c5 is. There is another Chrilly's law: Everybody besides a GM can write a strong chess programm. Maybe this holds also for Go-Programms. Everyboyd beside a Dan can write a strong programm. Or maybe its the other way round. The programms are relative weak, because the programmers are all too strong. Chrilly _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.
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