Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 12:33:41 04/02/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 09:23:09, Laurence Chen wrote: >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 Hmm, I expected a "I am sorry my appologies to beta testers" when I opened your post, not this. I can hardly believe that you write "software for a living" without knowing that no complex program can be bug free. Even if that would be possible it would be a matter of priorities ... Regards, Georg
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