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Subject: Re: A "scary" way to test your opening game algorithms

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 17:05:26 02/06/03

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On February 06, 2003 at 19:28:53, Tom Likens wrote:

>
>Under the slightly humorous dept:
>
>Last night I made a number of changes to the binary
>format of my opening book, so that the latest version
>of my engine couldn't read its old opening book.
>
>No big deal, rebuild the book and use the new
>format.  So far so good, except that when I started
>my engine up on ICC this morning (and then blithely
>went off to work) I forgot to reset the local link
>to the new book.
>
>End result, it played *all* day without an opening
>book?!  Arrrgghhh!!
>
>Ah, the joys of computer programming ;)
>

LOL! It reminds me of the time not too long ago when I found out that I had
disabled pondering in WinBoard (for testing or something), and run without it
for weeks.

/David



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