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Subject: Re: Fruit-IsiChess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:59:44 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 14:46:16, Cesar Contreras wrote:

>
>>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.
>
>
>It's easy to broke things in a complex system like a chess program and it's very
>dificult to discover bugs, they are likely not to be discovered with just a few
>days of testing.
>
>http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/sw_reliability/#bathtub
>
>It's my believe that days before an important event it's better to focus on
>adjusting parameters, book preparation and hardware preparation than changing
>code.

It is my believe that Fabien is a good programmer so he already has good tools
to detect bugs and changes in the evaluation like adding contemt factor in the
last day are not a big risk for him.

Uri



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