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Subject: Re: Testing chess programs

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 09:35:56 12/31/97

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>- Collect a set of worst-case positions to test the program on.
>Get one with nine queens, one with all pawns blocked, one with
>two bishops on the same color squares, that kind of thing.
>The recently-posted positions with huge legal move counts would
>- Despite all this work, there will still be bugs. When you
>suspect one, buckle down and trace it! It's amazing how many
>be good for this set.
>
>programmers are too lazy to fix rare bugs, or to decipher odd
>behavior that might be a bug.
>
>  Jay


Excellent advice, do not let bugs live.  When you know there is
a but you must kill it at soon as possible no matter how rare.

You never know what the other side affects are.

-- Don



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