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Subject: Chess Programming & Testing Engines

Author: Swaminathan

Date: 06:08:09 10/26/05


This post is questioning,nothing against the charter

Is writing a chess program as hobby a waste of time?A long time ago,Bruce said
that most people can write a program,meaning it's not hard to write but it takes
a lot of time to produce a bug free engine
and also what does the tester benefit from testing a lot and producing a whole
wade of logs,games and results?
You are not going to benefit a lot of money from releasing the product
commercial unless it is more like chessmaster
There are already a lots of engines available for free download,I don't see any
point in producing a new engine no matter how strong it is,and what unique style
the program plays
I know most programmers here would disagree with me and some testers would flame
me,but atleast this is a positive criticsm in question, and it is not against
the efforts of a programmer nor against the hobby time pass of testers,I respect
their work.You are not going to flame the work of Dan Brown when he brings
criticsm against christianity.
PS:I'm not gonna respond to sub thread message if it contains rudeness,flaming
etc


Swami



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