Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:04:21 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 13:58:54, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 13:13:02, Fabien Letouzey wrote: > >> >>Draw by repetition at move 18. >> >>I take all the trouble of adding contempt-factor code this week, and forget to >>set the parameter appropriately ... >> >>Laugh at me :) > >I do not think that there is anything that has caused more tournament disasters >than untested changes the week of the tournament. > >There may be a few rare improvements, but the disasters are numerous and I think >that there has never been a WCCC or WMCCC without a report of a last minute >change by one of the programmers that broke something. Being predictable is a mistake because it helps the opponent to do better opening preperation. I do not think that doing changes in the last days before the tournament is a mistake if you check the code for bugs and fabien does it. Here the problem was not bad code but not setting the parameters correctly. Uri
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