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Subject: Re: SSDF. Gandalfs LEARNING is destoyed when aborting!!

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 07:54:22 10/18/00

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On October 18, 2000 at 05:51:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 18, 2000 at 05:33:06, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>
>>:-)))
>>
>>don“t get a heart-attache steen. I am sure they will get it right.
>>
>>sooner or later. or maybe later...
>>
>>maybe next year. :-))) the most important thing is of course that the chessbase
>>programs run accurate :-))
>
>My opinion is that it should be the responsibility of the testers to stop the
>match when they suspect that the learning of a program that is supposed to have
>a learning function is destroyed and to ask the programmer for the reason for
>it.
>
>It is not interesting to continue matches when you see that the learning is
>destoyed and if it is possible to test the program without this bug then it is
>better to do it.
>
>I do not suggest to stop matches after seeing bugs that are not learning bugs
>because this kind of bug is different.
>
>People may complain that tiger12 also lost the same opening against Junior many
>times in a row but this case was different because I understood that the reason
>was not a bug but a bad design decision.
>
>Uri

And how was I supposed to now that it was a bug and not a bad design decision?

Tony



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