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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.18 - Crafty17.7 22,5-17,5!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:20:13 04/12/00

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On April 12, 2000 at 10:14:51, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 12, 2000 at 01:06:47, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Crafty 17.7 is good as SSDF and ICC tournament have shown to us. I want to check
>>how much progress there has been from 16.18. I run 40 games Nunn2 match with
>>5'+5' limit and 16.18 won 22,5-17,5 - it won with white 11,5-8,5 and also
>>with black 11-9! So no spectacular progress in engine after 16.18...
>
>
>Wrong time control.  Everything I have done for the last year has been
>targeting long game time controls, _not_ blitz.  Crafty is definitely getting
>worse at blitz as it gets better at longer time controls.  A necessary evil at
>times...


I should have added that I don't tune _anything_ by playing crafty vs crafty,
as I consider that pointless.  It is very possible that an older version will
beat the newer version.  It doesn't mean the older version is better overall,
just that it might be better against Crafty.



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