Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:55:36 06/29/99
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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 $$...
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