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Subject: Re: SSDF(Crafty 17.07 - SOS)AMD K6-2 450, 1-5.

Author: pete

Date: 14:56:17 08/19/00

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On August 19, 2000 at 16:08:31, Peter Skinner wrote:

>>SSDF uses auto232. I am afraid that auto232 under winboard (by Remi) is still
>>not very well known.
>>IMO, crafty will profit in the chessbase environment from the high quality book.
>>
>>Uli
>>
>>>
>>>pavel
>
>The results are not what bothers me. What bothers me, is they are using a
>version that had some serious bugs, and 17.08 came out very quickly after 17.07
>to correct this...
>
>If they want to use a version close to 17.07, then use 17.08. Atleast there will
>be more realistic results.
>
>Crafty is definately higher rated than the current SSDF list states. And I doubt
>many will argue with that fact.

Ok , here is another one of them :-)

I never have seen any data suggesting it should be even higher rated than it is
now and I _do_ follow its results.

That crafty on a Quad-Xeon will be even stronger , sure , but other would
probably be better too on an Athlon 1000 which they don't get either .

Crafty competes very successful at SSDF currently IMHO and I doubt many will
argue that it won't hurt Crafty getting the Fritz 6 opening book and the
Chessbase book learner ;-)

If SSDF changed versions every month or so there _never_ would be any reliable
results and they chose the one distributed by Chessbase át some time . This
sounds reasonable ; and in fact it seems it isn't very broken at all . SOS also
wins matches against Crafty17.11 or 17.12 from time to time if you look at other
tournaments .

I am sure Crafty17.13 will probably soon be tested by SSDF after WMCC but
whatever one can say about SSDF , noone can expect them to switch versions every
other week and play some 150 tournament games with all of them .

pete

>
>As for Crafty not using the Winboard environment, that is actually a good thing.
>Under ChessBase GUI, it is getting a well designed book to use. Crafty's book is
>good, but most times very speculative. The Crafty 16.xx series book, was by far
>better than the 17.xx series.
>
>Then again Uli, would you want the SSDF testing a version of Comet that had
>serious bugs in it? I don't think you would, so why should another author have
>to take the same sort of results?





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