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Subject: Re: And the reason to purchase CSTal is what again?

Author: walter irvin

Date: 08:09:55 08/23/99

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On August 23, 1999 at 10:08:16, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>From the point of view of making a perfect program I think you're right.
>A program should work flawless.
>But from the point of view of an ideal humanlike opponent I think it's required
>the program does these kind of stupid things.
>
>It's simply a matter of priority and I think it's not unimportant in the
>development of user friendly chess software.
>But -as a program feature, not as a bug.
>
>Jeroen ;-}
the plain fact is it is a bug only if ,it is doing something other than what the
programmer intends it to do .if im wrong please somebody correct me .but no body
will correct me cause i'm right .the only thing you can say is ,to play perfect
chess, the  computer should not lose on time .it would be better to say you dont
like a certain programs time management .but i also think Karpov has poor time
management .



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