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Subject: Re: Draw due to lack of blockade detection...

Author: Omid David

Date: 09:25:12 10/04/02

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On October 04, 2002 at 12:13:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On October 04, 2002 at 11:38:18, Omid David wrote:
>
>>At the current stage, my engine has a +2500 performance, so I know what I'm
>>talking about.
>
>I'll make my point now before it gets lost in the other thread.
>
>Advancing your engine will mean that from a certain point on you
>will realize that some things you did before are no good. You can
>take this in a very broad sense. It doesn't only refer to algorithms.
>
>This means that your engine and your view on programming it are
>not perfect. What you know and think now may be things you completely
>disagree with one year from now.
>
>With this background, saying that your engine is x strength and that
>hence we should trust you, is not a solid argument in my view.
>

Of course, I perfectly agree. But calling me an idiot, also wouldn't be very
accurate (I hope!).


>No matter how strong your engine is, you may just be wrong. For
>one, you don't think everything Vincent writes is right and that
>he knows everything about everything he talks about, do you?
>
>If Vincent says that your method sucks and your engine must suck
>if it works for you, he may be right. You aren't going to prove
>him wrong by arguing that you have a strong engine. I don't think
>you're going to be able to prove him wrong, period. But that
>doesn't mean he is right, either.
>
>At best you can demonstrate that, right now, the method improves
>the strength of your engine. Maybe one year from now you've thrown
>it out for god-knows what reasons. Maybe one year from now we'll
>all have stolen it because it turns out to be a brilliant idea.
>Who knows?
>
>--
>GCP

I completely agree with everything you mentioned.

Omid.





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