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Subject: Re: Fruit-IsiChess

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:21:17 08/15/05

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On August 15, 2005 at 14:59:44, Uri Blass wrote:

>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


It is dangerous for _anybody_ to make last-minute changes.  Don't care _who_ you
are...



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