Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 15:51:27 03/24/00
I have followed Crafty for some years now even if Crafty has been a good program it has always been a bit after "the best professionals" but now from version 17.x (not 17.01 that in some games played suicidal-chess according king-security, castling right in to an ongoing attack against its king) I think the latest versions is on "par" with a lot of the better commercial programs. I want to know what is the difference between Crafty from today and the earlier versions? What is the reasons for the improved play? I understand that Crafty plays better with the tuned books from Chessbase-engines but this is only a little part of Craftys better play. Craftys play with Tablebases is excellent, but I guess it must be a lot of other improvements as well. This is written before I know the results from our testings, but I think Craftys results are going to surprise many people. I have been busy with the excellent program Shredder4. Remember also that Crafty dislikes Amd K6-2, a K6-2 450 is about equal to a Pentium 333(for Crafty). The difference is about 30-35 %clockwise.
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