Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:56:04 12/08/99
Go up one level in this thread
On December 08, 1999 at 18:28:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 08, 1999 at 17:16:28, Luis E. Alvarado wrote: > >>I agree with you 100%. Humans tend to be far more inconsistent than computers. > >You might be surprised. Computers will play a real stinker move some times. >Could be an unknown hash collision. Could be a bad opening book entry. Could >be a program bug or just an inferior algorithmic decision. But for whatever >reason, computers screw up now and again, in a big way. I have never seen evidence of a hash collision causing a game to be lost. I have seen people suggest this as a reason for losing when a particularly bad clunker is made, but this suggestion is always made before investigation and never after. In college I used to do a lot of programming in a large open area full of a bunch of crazy people, on a minicomputer that we all shared. I noticed that whenever one particular guy had a bug, he would tell us all to save our work, because he believed that the mini was behaving strangely and was about to crash. This is the same sort of deal I think. Most bad moves are produced as a result of the program working as designed, and responsibility for this falls on the shoulders of the programmer. bruce
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.