Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:52:41 06/29/99
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On June 29, 1999 at 09:55:36, Harald Faber wrote: >On June 29, 1999 at 09:49:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 29, 1999 at 01:28:28, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>These superfast programs only got 3 resp 3.5 points! Specially P.Conners was >>>one of the favourites before WCCC. I hope someone can give explanations. >>> >>>regards Jouni >> >> >>I think it was an issue of 'robustness'. >> >>I have said many times that the most fortunate thing that ever happened to me >>was winning the 1983 world championship, because our parallel search was only >>completed two weeks prior to the event. And at round-one time, we had not >>played a complete game, although we had done plenty of testing, and we did a >>very simple parallel search for that reason. >> >>This was one of the reasons I expected both Ferret and Shredder to do well, >>because _both_ play lots of games on ICC. And the first step toward becoming >>a world champion is to play a _lot_ of games and have a bug-free program. The >>"research" guys have always hurt themselves here (me included) because access >>to the 'real hardware' is often quite limited. Which means you do lots of >>testing on 'baby hardware'. But an additional ply or two changes things a >>lot, and without testing, bad moves are not uncommon. >> >>When everyone figures out that ICC is 'there', this will change... :) > >In Germany you have to pay $2/h for Internet access, so 24h/day for a month is >some $$... Talk to the government. :) Here I pay 20 dollars per month for a second phone line in my home. And I can keep it up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no extra charge...
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