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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