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Originally Posted by Molokh
So only a programmer with 8pts in Piloting can make a vehicular autopilot program of 8pts? That's weird. IIRC the most famous chess program was not made by a chess player of comparable levels
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Are you talking about Deep Blue? IIRC, there was a whole team of programmers and chess experts who fiddled with Deep Blue in between matches with Kasparov. You can write a brute-force chess solver if you have computers so fast they can simulate all 10^152 potential branches of the chess tree in 2 minutes. Otherwise, you have to rely on your knowledge of chess to provide "good enough" heuristics for recognizing winning moves/positions in order to prune the tree to something computable, and then if you recognize that Kasparov was beating you with combination X, you then tweak your heuristics to be a little bit stronger vs. X and neglect Y, which he wasn't using. But you have to be good at chess in the first place to even see X and Y happening.
-Max