Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 06:23:09 04/02/01
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On April 01, 2001 at 23:27:21, Chessfun wrote: >On April 01, 2001 at 22:13:01, Laurence Chen wrote: > > >>I think the Beta testers failed to check for bugs and they were supposed to >check for all bugs, no for chess engine strenght alone, this annoys me. > >Be serious we do far more than look at the engines. All bugs are reported. >The choice to make changes or not to make changes is the choice of >the programmers. > >From the Rebel Board; > >Kyodai >Member >Posts: 48 >Registered: Sep 2000 > posted 03-24-2001 09:51 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >1) I open CP5 and Gambit Tiger is loaded with 96 MB hash. >2) I then right click the board - clear board and enter the following position: >White: Kc2, Rf1 Pawn b2 >Black: Kg6, Rh8 >3) Then finish this set up and hit the icon for analysis mode. >4) No moves are displayed in the statistics >window. At the bottom it reads: "60 minutes--------0-0--------01.00----01.00, >since the >previous used level was game in 60' >5)When I hit "computer move" it looks allright in the statistics window. This >error >happens frequently. What's wrong? >B) I set up a position - play from this against Tiger - save the game and result >as **.pgn - then open this DB - the game is there. When I then try to load it by >double clicking the game - only the result is shown- >no moves. Am I overlooking something simple? > >Kyodai > >-------------- > >lex >Member >Posts: 308 >Registered: Nov 1999 > posted 03-24-2001 11:10 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >12345) Is this with Gambit Tiger 2.0 ?? Here it happens when the position is in >the Tablebases, when I disable the TB's it is ok. > >------------------- > >What you speak of was known a while ago. >Also read Jim Walker's post which is clear enough. > >Sarah. I don't go to the Rebel board, so I was not aware of this bug. I also program software for a living, and it's not a good thing for me to implement a bug software in my company because it would irate a lot of users, and my boss wouldn't be happy about. Quality Control is very important, and I wish it was also with software, specially with a lot of commercial software. Sometimes a lot of bugs are not discovered because the users or beta testers fail to spot them, or report them. Take the example of CM8000, it has a lot of bugs when it was release, and I can't believe that they allowed such software hit the market, yes, a patch was made available, but it took at least 3 months before it was made available. This may be all right with a game, but still it should not be used as an excuse. We need good quality software releases, not bug software which are release in order to meet the deadline. I think that's bad marketing. Regards, Laurence
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