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Subject: Re: CCT5 - Now 35 Participants - Deadline NEXT SUNDAY

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:03:20 01/09/03

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On January 08, 2003 at 17:17:28, Brian Richardson wrote:

>On January 08, 2003 at 16:13:27, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2003 at 15:17:55, Volker Richey wrote:
>>
>>>hi
>>>
>>>new - Robin / Piotr Dachtera / Poland
>>>
>>>-----------------------------------------
>>>
>>>Don't forget!  The deadline for following the CCT5 is January 11 2003!!
>>>
>>>more informations:
>>>
>>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct5
>>>
>>>volker
>>
>>I can announce that movei is not going to participate.
>>
>>It has enough tournaments that it participates and I see no need to participate
>>in another tournament(it is better if I spend more time on fixing it and not on
>>looking at more games of it).
>
>I hope you will reconsider participating.  I have found that the intensity of
>tournament plays brings more bugs to light than any other way.
>Also, new ideas for improvements seem to follow from tournaments, perhaps
>because the author is more focused on the games.

Movei is playing in enough tournaments.

I do not see the big advantage from playing in another tournament.
It is better if I work about what I need to do.

There are a lot of free engines that movei can play against them.
I do not understand why the ICC tournament can help me more than games
that I get from other sources when the number of the games that I get from other
sources is clearly bigger.

Games did not help me to find that movei use numextensions[-1] in the first
iteration
checkingbounds helped me to detect it.

For some reason when I use test postions I find that the number of nodes is the
same even after correcting the error.

There was also another error(not deterministic error) before the error of
numextensions[-1] but for some reason I cannot reproduce it now.

I believe that discussions here can help me more than games to get rid of these
errors.

The main problem of movei except it is not bugs but lack of knowledge.
I looked in a lot of previous games of movei and I do not believe that new
tournaments are going to help me.

Uri



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