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Subject: Re: A Question for Dr. Hyatt

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 19:58:18 03/03/00

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On March 03, 2000 at 22:26:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 03, 2000 at 21:36:20, Tina Long wrote:
>
>>On March 02, 2000 at 03:49:24, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>On March 01, 2000 at 22:38:00, Tina Long wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>
>>>Try 17.07 as compiled by Chessbase as an engine. I feel that its the strongest
>>>Crafty ever.....
>>>
>>>Torstein
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>>What is the "best" Crafty version currently available for download for the F5.32
>>>>interface?
>>>>
>>
>>Much thanks to Torstein & Jeremiah Penery,
>>I've now got 17.07, & besides showing both depths (eg 8/17, 17.04 just showed 8)
>>I see that it is "remembering" hash when I move foreward in Analysis in the same
>>way H7.32 does.
>>
>>It is definitely a fun engine to play, very solid & no errors that I can see.
>>
>>My current score of 0-0-11 makes it statistically equivalent to the other top
>>engines, (when playing me).
>>
>>Thanks again guys,
>>Tina
>
>
>There is no "both depths" in crafty.  It does a full-width search to some
>iteration depth, plus extensions, but the extensions are not limited in
>depth, and there is no 'selective search'.  most likely chessbase hacked
>it to display 8/17 which means 17 moves were searched on the 8th iteration
>before making a move...

Actually, I thought that was the original purpose behind having two numbers
there... !?

:-)

Dave



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