MyChessAppsSo I had the worst nightmare a Chess programmer and fan could ever have.
Me and Vishy Anand were at some tourney (he was probably giving a simul)
I thought of showing him the latest features that I had added to my Android Chess apps.
But my phone would simply not respond. It had become terribly slow.
Even my Nexus 7 tablet refused to oblige.
In the end I could not show him anything!
Luckily I woke up then…lol
A programmer’s nightmare..demos never go without hiccups!!
At the start of the video, the host talks about Kasparov’s article in the NYTimes. In that long article, Kasparov gives a nice insight into the world of chess and computers.
In particular, the following point struck me:
“Like so much else in our technology-rich and innovation-poor modern world, chess computing has fallen prey to incrementalism and the demands of the market. Brute-force programs play the best chess, so why bother with anything else? Why waste time and money experimenting with new and innovative ideas when we already know what works? Such thinking should horrify anyone worthy of the name of scientist, but it seems, tragically, to be the norm.”
Here is a link to that article. Worth reading!
This reminds me of Larry Page’s legendary 10x comment. 10% increment is not enough. Make it 10 times better!