Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 01:54:29 07/24/03
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Hi, On July 24, 2003 at 03:09:52, Albert Bertilsson wrote: >After tracing a bug in Sharper for over a week I was starting to loose hope... >A ran 600 games with a debug version, no problem. >Switched to release version, after 579 games the bastard hanged =(. > >Would you consider releasing this engine version bad policy? I always was very annoyed when I had my engine play against another one that either stoped responding or didn't recognize some moves (en passant for example). Fortunately there weren't many such engines in those times. >Have you any known bug in your engine that you simply do not care about because >it occurs very rarely? I had a very annoying bug : I had to clear my hashtable in Freyr after each move, otherwise it was playing weak moves. I still don't know why this occured, I tried many ways to debug it but to no avail. >I realize that it will not be easier to find the bug later, it's just that I >don't have the stamina to try and reproduce it again with the debug version, it >can take thousands of games =( Use some special debug tools like DevPartner or BoundsChecker and/or PC-Lint to find out flaws in the code. This might solve your problem. Andrei
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