Author: Mathieu Pagé
Date: 07:23:00 10/06/05
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On October 05, 2005 at 16:31:12, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >Looking at the posts here, today and other days, I suddenly realized that there >is not anymore the kind of posts you still could find in older days, here or in >paper magazines, the kind of articles or posts saying something like "program X >stinks". >In short, It looks like there are not bad or even mediocre programs available, >As a friend of mine say of automotive industry: "in these days every car is a >good car... car manufacture is an already dominated technology". >In older times you did find bad cars. Cars that went stray the first week after >purchasing them. Cars with all kind of weird sounds of loose parts. Engines that >overheated or overeated gass. Etc. >Same with chess engines? >Exception made of definitively lousy engines produced for going in a Cd with 123 >other programs for kids, can you say any of the engines that we know from >commercial or amateurs programers could be qualifuid as "bad"? >Is it, already, a dominatede technique? >Are overthere so well know general heuristic that, provided you work accurately, >you cannot but produce a "strong program"? >Questions... >Fernando Try to play ChessPlusPlus on FICS. I think this is what I would called a bad engine. Mathieu Pagé
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