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Subject: Re: Programmers and lab Rats

Author: Joseph Merolle

Date: 10:15:51 06/06/02

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On June 06, 2002 at 10:10:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 06, 2002 at 00:57:19, Joseph Merolle wrote:
>
>>Do you think these programmers have a genuine interest in giving us the best
>>possible program for our money with all these upgrades ? Or do you think we are
>>being used as lab rats and programmers are just experimenting (at our expense)
>>evaluating how ratings move on playchess.com and tournament postings that we put
>>up. Or do you think its both aiming to hit new highs (seeing what works and what
>>not) for Fritz 8. Mean while we think we are getting  some awesome cutting edge
>>engine up grade and its just a trial run version. Really what I am asking when a
>>programmer puts an engine up grade out do you think they create it with the
>>intentions of being the final up grade?
>>
>>
>>Regards Joseph
>
>
>I think the term "finished chess program" is a classic oxymoron.  A chess
>program will never be finished, at least in any time-frame that could be
>considered "finite".
>
>It will continue to evolve, exactly like the author evolves.  Slowly and
>over time...
>
>Do you really think someone could write a chess engine, and then one day
>announce "that is it, I have no more ideas on how to make it better, period"??
>
>From experience, almost 35 years (in my case) has not come even close to
>reaching this point yet.

What I mean by finshed I mean Finshed as far was the version (Fritz 7) of the
program goes. I am not talking about Fritz 8,9 and so on. Dont get me wroung I
like the idea of upgrading programs. I was just wondering if programmers ever
put out a program to test a new idea/concept or is their intention every time is
to put out the strougest engine. Thanks for your responce Dr.H

Regards Joseh



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