Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 12:08:01 02/05/98
As all know Crafty had a bumpy start at Komputer Kup II, due to a (let us call it) bug in the opening book. But in my view the real problem lies somewhere else: Bob is by no means the only programmer who would start at a world championship with a program which is 5 minutes old. I saw it myself that programmers made 3 overnight changes during a 5 day tournament, when they would have definitely better taken a 6 month old version which had proved bug free so far. And I saw Fedex overnight express delivery of opening books during world championships which contained opening lines at the end of which the program would have lost a QUEEN for nothing. To make it short: it is certainly better taking a well tested program to a championship than making changes until the last minute! Bert
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