Author: Chessfun
Date: 22:18:47 08/19/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 00:20:57, Peter Skinner wrote: >>>I am just stating that the 17.07 version had bugs, serious bugs, so why >>>not use the next version that was more stable, and didn't have these bugs? >>As I recall it was this version that won the ICC tourney. >>Anyway is it not the author of the program or the sponsor >>either Dr. Hyatt or Chessbase to have asked the SSDF to >>test a later version. Are they to keep track of all program >>upgrades on their own?. >17.08 was the version used in the ICC tourney in which it finished 7.0/8.0. >No losses and 2 draws. Ok then but as far as 'chess' goes, 17.7 and 17.8 are identical. See following posts: And since this "Identical" eng won the ICC tourney these bugs could'nt have been that serious. Or as stated above the author could have sent them a new version. Indeed when the SSDF first posted Crafty's results most praised the scores and resultant SSDF rating. Subject: Re: Shiny, new Crafty 17-8 bone crushing motor online. Fasten your seatbelt From: Robert Hyatt E-mail: hyatt@crafty.cis.uab.edu Message Number: 95746 Date: February 08, 2000 at 11:47:44 In Reply to: Re: Shiny, new Crafty 17-8 bone crushing motor online. Fasten your seatbelt Message ID: 95685 Posted by: Chessfun At: chessfun_1999@yahoo.com On: February 08, 2000 at 08:02:43 >But can you tell me which version 17-7 or 17-8 >Dr Hyatt used at the ICC tourney last weekend. >Thanks. As far as 'chess' goes, 17.7 and 17.8 are identical. Someone pointed out a few problems with compiler warnings on different platforms, dealing with passing a long long to an fseek() call when it should have been a long, for one example. 17.8 cleaned this up, as well as a couple of other problems (one was the bench command would crash and burn if you had no books.bin file). Engine-wise, both are identical. I played the first weekend with 17.7, the second with 17.8... both play identical moves, with identical scores and node counts (if you don't use SMP). I thought I would release 17.8 "as is" as a reference point for the ICC tournament version, in case any questions ever come up about "Hey, my crafty won't play that move ever, I think it had some human intervention." This version can be used by anyone to debunk such a statement.
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