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Subject: Re: Commercial entrants to future CCT's

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:13:05 02/24/05

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On February 24, 2005 at 09:05:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>I do not see a reason that not participating with a version that may have bugs
>will make the engine better than the amateurs.

Because an engine with bugs is almost always weaker than one without?

>Note also that the professional played with buggy versions in WCCC as
>was proved by the loss of Fritz on time against Falcon and the fact that
>shredder played with a weaker version because stefan accidentally deleted some
>code.

That reinforces the point above, I think.

(And nobody is perfect, so you always still have *some* bugs left. That doesn't
excuse you from trying to minimalize the amount, though)

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GCP



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