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Subject: Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:47:19 03/07/02

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On March 07, 2002 at 13:38:13, Christophe Theron wrote:

>it would drain a lot of energy from me to keep
>concentrated enough to not miss 4 or 5 plies tactics.
>
>It is strange because programming is a little bit like that. When you want to
>make a change in a program it's like computing chess tactics: you have to
>foresee all the consequences and all the places where some change is going to be
>needed.


I have made this analogy between chess and programming in the past.  A design
specification is sort of like a strategic plan.  Individual lines of code are
sort of like individual moves.  But one major difference: take-backs!  In
programming you can always go back and fix your blunders.

• Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Uri Blass 08:12:47 03/08/02
• Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Fernando Villegas 13:15:45 03/07/02
  • Re: What was Chess Challenger 7 thinking? Christophe Theron 07:53:25 03/08/02

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