Author: José Carlos
Date: 07:02:00 02/02/00
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On February 02, 2000 at 07:23:47, Steffen Jakob wrote: >To all authors of programs which play the ICC tournament. I would like to know >if you make changes between the rounds. I guess that most amateurs are doing so, >but the commercial ones don't. I talked to Chrilly Donninger and his opinion is >that a main difference between the commercial programs and the amateurs is the >stability, which I think is true. E.g. I had a stupid permanent brain bug which >made Hossa blunder against Nimzo in the first round in a position which was >probably won: > > >The result of the bug was that Hossa played almost immediately with a short >search, and the move was Kf7. If Hossa would have thought one second about this >position it would have played Kf5. The problem was that I saw this bug two times >in the game against Nimzo. The first time it occured he played a good move but >the second time he ruined his position (and I don't think that I wont get such a >chance very soon again). > >This bug was very ugly, because playing 2 or 3 moves with a very short search in >a standard game is almost deadly. So I implemented a very quick and dirty >workaround even before round 2 (there really was not much time) and a much >better workaround for round 3 + 4. > >What about others? Do you avoid any changes or did you also find some serious >bugs which you try to fix between the rounds. > >Best wishes, >Steffen. My program is clearly at it's first stages of development, so I need to correct bugs when I find them. I've made some minor improvements and bug-fixing for the last four rounds. José C.
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