Author: Roberto Waldteufel
Date: 15:59:40 06/03/98
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On June 03, 1998 at 17:05:32, odell hall wrote: >I am curious do programmers know how to defeat there own programs. It >would seem reasonable since they would have specific knowledge about the >strengths and weakness of their own programs. For instance i would love >schroeder to tell me the best way to beat rebel. Or is this question >rediculous?? Can I please get some comments on this from various >programmers I used to beat my program without much difficulty, but that has all changed now. It has got significantly stronger recently, and I now lose more often than I win. It is true that I am aware of certain weaknesses, but I tend to try to weed these out as I discover them (if I can), so the chinks in its armour are not so easy to exploit now. However, I think most programmer's hate to see their programs lose (I know I do), so if Ed can beat Rebel he might tell you so, but I very much doubt he would tell you exactly how. There are in fact plenty of examples over the years of programmers who wrote programs that play better than they do, eg the old BeBe program from the early days could defeat its programmers from almost the very beginning of the project's being operational (they used special purpose hardware, rather like Belle but not quite as fast). Roberto
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