Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:57:46 05/13/98
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On May 13, 1998 at 13:26:26, Don Dailey wrote: > >Before the 1993 ICCA tournament me and Larry put our last tweaks in >Socrates, played 2 test games with Genius on equal hardware and won >both games!!! Wow, that's 100% score. We can beat Genius EVERY >time! We went on to actually win this tournament, but subsequent >testing showed we were weaker than the Genius we tested against. > >- Don This is a "typical programmer analyis" by Vincent... but he forgets that *everyone* has bugs. In fact, in the last two weeks, against one of his three copies on ICC two games were lost by crafty in totally won positions, because I had a SMP bug that would get crafty/xboard out of sync, crafty would keep thinking and never see the move, letting its flag fall. So there's no way to say that "these 4 games" are more revealing than "those 100 games" because in those 100 games "I had a bug". In "those 100 games, probably *both* had bugs....
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