Strong players only?

[Darren Cook <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just looking through the Ing cup pages. Results are here
(congragulations to David Fotland!):
   http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/ing/results.html

What caught my interest was the below quote from Professor Chen, describing
Wulu. How many people agree or disagree that a poor go player cannot be a
good go programmer, and why do you think that?

This is an important issue with more and more of the AI community becoming
interested in computer go.

Darren


Professor Chen writes: 
Ms. Chen Guobao is my daughter. She was the main writer of Wulu before the
1996
       Ing Cup. Meanwhile, Miss Lei Xiuyu was a professional goe player and
spent some
       spare time in writing Wulu. She became a full-time programmer from
December 1996
       and then became the main writer of Wulu. As my daughter is a poor
Goe player, she
       cannot be a good programmer of goe software. Mr. Lu Jinqiang joined
the team in
       October 1997 and wrote the interface part of Wulu. He is also a good
player of
       goe. Mr. Li Zhihua jointed the team in September 1997. He is a
player of goe, even
       better than Miss Lei and Mr. Lu. But he is bad at programming, so he
can only do
       some auxiliary jobs including the joseki library, etc. 


Chen Zhixing 
(from  http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/ing/gen.html )