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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