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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