Talk:Ed Trice/Archive 3

Don't revert this page without discussion

Somebody just reverted the edits of three different editors in the article without discussion. Please don't do that. Just to clarify (talk) 15:54, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Trice's Checkers Contributions

I just got the book "One Jump Ahead - Computer Perfection at Checkers". Ed Trice is in the index of this book despite what I saw other people post in talk that's been archived. He is on pages 241 and 453-457. Also, Trice and Dodgen are both credited with CORRECTING the Chinook databases, not just verifying them. So, he did help solve the game of checkers. Those quotes need to go back in and it is time to stop saying Trice is most noted only for Gothic Chess. As far as I know, no books on Gothic Chess mention Trice, yet here he is in one just published in October 2008 on checkers. This is notable. Octogenarian 1928 (talk) 21:55, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Page 455 is Gil Dodgen emailing Jonathan Schaeffer- Do we get a headline out of this? I would suggestion something like Piano-Playing, French-Speaking, Harley-Riding, Hang Gliding Magazine Editor and Pennsylvania Sidekick Help Correct Chinook Databases

Obviously said with some partial jest in the statement. But Schaeffer included it in his book. Also

Page 456, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer says With hindsight this whole incident was amazingly fortuitous. I had just embarked on a massive effort to compute the nine- and ten-piece databases. Gil and Ed's computations discovered an error in my data at the start of the computation, at a time when it was easy for me to fix things. What if the error hadn't been uncovered until a year or two down the road? Then it would have had a devastating effect on my and my dream of solving checkers.

To me that sure sounds like he helped him solve the game of checkers.

Octogenarian 1928 (talk) 22:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)