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Subject: Re: What went wrong with P.Conners and Zugzwang in WCCC?????

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:48:52 06/29/99

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On June 29, 1999 at 09:57:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On June 29, 1999 at 09:23:23, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On June 29, 1999 at 08:39:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On June 29, 1999 at 07:10:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Oh yes,
>>>>
>>>>in view of Vincent's long story and his many excuses why "Diep" did not
>>>>fare too well again (no hardware excuses possible this time), I like to
>>>>add that meaningful *testing* is obviously a crucial part of program
>>>>development -- not only in computer chess.
>>>>
>>>>If people decide to enter a world championship with an untested program,
>>>>this is fine with me. But then, they should also stand by their decision
>>>>and accept the blame in case of severe failure instead of whining about
>>>>their immature and buggy code. It was their own independent decision to
>>>>employ it in the first place, wasn't it ...
>>>>
>>>>=Ernst=
>>>
>>>I'm nowhere whining Ernst, i'm just analyzing what went wrong after
>>>i got a question to do so. At least i can explain what went wrong
>>>in my program. Can you?
>>
>>It was easy to see what went wrong with your program -- a buggy and not
>>even deadlock-free parallel search tends to produce random numbers as
>>its overall result quite regularly ...
>
>Yeah i know you like to joke about it,
>but i wonder how most professional chessprogrammers are gonna
>improve the weakest chain of their programs without knowing shit
>from chess.

They get ideas from people who understand something about chess.
I tell Amir Ban my ideas about chess based on games that Junior does mistakes
and I believe that he also heard ideas from GM's.

Uri



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