Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:51:43 08/20/00
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On August 19, 2000 at 19:05:37, Peter Skinner wrote: >>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 ;-) You are aware that the "chessbase book learner" came from Crafty? And not the other way around? >> >>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? > >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?
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