Author: Tony Werten
Date: 08:02:01 07/10/04
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On July 10, 2004 at 05:36:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>Fritz greatly reduced its chances for overall victory by losing on time >>against Falcon in round three. This was due not to faulty algorithms, but by >>the computer hanging, as we have learnt from members of the Fritz team. > >This sounds like complete nonsense to me. A hanging computer is easier to sell than a bug in the software. (If they would have been selling computers they would have sworn it was a bug in the software. :) Tony > >Why did the Fritz team not check whether the computer was still running, >they are allowed to do so (after asking the tournament director). > >Moreover, a hang should be obvious from the clocks on the remote system >no longer running. > >-- >GCP
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