Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: What went wrong with P.Conners and Zugzwang in WCCC?????

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:39:30 06/29/99

Go up one level in this thread


On June 29, 1999 at 07:10:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>Oh yes,
>
>in view of Vincent's long story and his many excuses why "Diep" did not
>fare too well again (no hardware excuses possible this time), I like to
>add that meaningful *testing* is obviously a crucial part of program
>development -- not only in computer chess.
>
>If people decide to enter a world championship with an untested program,
>this is fine with me. But then, they should also stand by their decision
>and accept the blame in case of severe failure instead of whining about
>their immature and buggy code. It was their own independent decision to
>employ it in the first place, wasn't it ...
>
>=Ernst=

I'm nowhere whining Ernst, i'm just analyzing what went wrong after
i got a question to do so. At least i can explain what went wrong
in my program. Can you?








This page took 0 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.