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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:57:24 06/29/99

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On June 29, 1999 at 09:23:23, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>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 ...

Yeah i know you like to joke about it,
but i wonder how most professional chessprogrammers are gonna
improve the weakest chain of their programs without knowing shit
from chess.

>=Ernst=



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