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Subject: Moral: A program with holes in it won't be fixed by a faster computer.

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 11:00:53 05/31/01

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Jim,

A Concorde aircraft will crash and burn if it hits a big enough hole in the
runway.  A Cessna will fly just nicely if the runway allows a good takeoff.

All of our great chess programs have holes.  Slowly, we are patching the runway
(programs).
Faster machines will be appreciated but a good sound program will be more
important.


Tim "US Air Force" Frohlick


On May 31, 2001 at 13:32:44, James T. Walker wrote:

>Here is a position reached by Deep Shredder at G/60.  Deep Shredder had
>approximately 15 minutes on the clock when it took only 13 seconds to make the
>blunder (Athlon 900 360 M hash tables).
>(not sure if diagram will show up----haven't done it in a long time)
>
>[D]R7/8/3K4/8/7P/5P2/3p4/1k6 w - -
>
>Here Deep Shredder abandoned the perpetual check and played 75. Ke5 ??  Three
>moves later Deep Shredder announced "Mate in 53" on itself.  :(



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