Hi Lucas,lucasart wrote:Actually these kind of "titles" exist in a way. Some people create some fake tournaments, delivering fake trophees, like the CSVN folks for example. This year there were about 6 participants, and the winner of their "International Chess Tournament" was ... Rookie !
This kind of thing really makes me laugh, and I can only conclude that these people are desperate, and create such events as a way to draw attention and bring their work to a level where it does not belong. Everyone knows what the strongest programs are, and who is (or is not) a genuine developper of such programs.
I respect what you have done for computer chess so far, you wrote a nice (and original) chess engine, but sometimes you sound like an asshole. Sorry, no offense but you have no idea what you are talking about.
Participating in OTB tournaments like the CSVN's ICT and ODCCC was one of the nicest things I have ever experienced! They don't really care if you have a strong engine. It's rather a live meeting for computer chess programmers. In the occasion I was operating RedQueen, met & chatted with people like Gerd, Don, Stefan Meyer, HGM, Amir Ban, Richard (the baron), and many others. Can you imagine how cool & fun it is? The motivation behind it is not delivering trophees to the best engines nor they have a political agenda to follow. Please stop the nonsense...
Best regards,
Comparing the hard work and skills required to write a GM strength program and becoming a GM yourself is a very strange idea to say the least:
- it is true that most GMs do not have the skills to write a strong chess program, and some of them would never be able to do it (simply because they do not have a "technical background")
- for someone like me, it "only" took me a year to make a 2500 ELO program from scratch, but I could spend the rest of my life studying chess, I would *never* be a GM.
So these tasks require very different skills sets, and are not comparable.
