Author: Chessfun
Date: 22:20:25 08/19/00
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On August 20, 2000 at 01:13:39, Peter Skinner wrote: >>I'm not going to dive into the middle of this... it is too complex. "crafty" >>is _different_ from the commercial engines. They release one program a year, >>with maybe a bugfix version sometime later. I release 10-20 versions a year. >>Which one to test? IMHO _always_ the most recent. But perhaps that is not >>practical. I would prefer them to simply list "crafty v17" and upgrade as >>new versions come out. That is about the best that could be done, since >>Crafty doesn't have an annual upgrade date... So what if an earlier version >>had a bug and had a worse result than is reasonable. The 'fixed' version should >>make up for the problems, over time. The alternative is really bad IMHO, that >>of having _each_ version of Crafty on the SSDF list. In 3 years, 99% of the >>entries on their list will be my program. :) > >I understand that you are stating. Trying every version would be unreasonable, >but I believe that they do apply patches, and go on, not renaming the version >they are using. So using v17 would be best. I just don't think that 17.07 is the >right one to be testing. 17.08 would be the best candidate to try, It is the same chess engine as 17.07 Thanks. and go form >there. So much has been done in the versions after 17.07, that have improved >Crafty immensely.
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