Author: Don Dailey
Date: 13:32:41 02/05/98
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>I've also seen programmers madly modifying code at every ACM and WCCC >event I have attended. I *never* do this. The likelihood of adding >new bugs is much greater than the chance of correcting existing bugs... I agree this is bad. In most cases I have seen, (and I have done myself) there is some really nasty problem that directly affects your winning chances. A tradeoff is made and then the furious coding. In my own case it seems like I'm always writting a new chess program before the old one ever gets finished. There is always some reason but it really hurts the program because it never gets refined. Probably the last 100 rating points at least come from the refinements that only a mature program gets. The latest program Cilkchess 2.0 is my first bitboard program. I hope it's the last! But there is always a reason to write a new one, the reason this time was to take advantage of our 64 bit hardware! My plan is to sit on this one forever if possible. I don't think the hardware will outgrow 64 bit software for a while at least. - Don
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