Just my wacky attitude, but how is one to get 10 years of experience if
not
by trying and trying and then trying some more? :-) So I'd rephrase that
to
"Without 10 years experience there, don't expect better than mediocre
results" or something like that.
I am open to better definitions.
But let's face it, the average go and chess or game searching program
developed for a thesis, is real real bad. Usually a year or 4-6 has been
put into it by then already. So we can't say the researcher has failed.
Competing with those 10 year old projects is just very hard.
Yes, true.