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

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 06:23:23 06/29/99

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On June 29, 1999 at 08:39:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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?

It was easy to see what went wrong with your program -- a buggy and not
even deadlock-free parallel search tends to produce random numbers as
its overall result quite regularly ...

=Ernst=



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