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Subject: Re: Crafty modified to Deep Blue - Crafty needs testers to produce outputs

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 06:01:32 06/19/01

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>>By the way at FICS a modified Crafty is running, using SE. It has a rating of
>>2100.
>
>Yes very interesting to bring this up without checking first.
>
>You must be referring to FriarTuck. Until 2 or 3 days ago
>it was running a crippled version of ExChess, with an
>1850 rating.

Yes, I meant FriarTuck. And I saw it's rating has risen somewhat.

>I switched it over to Crafty to test the SE and it has been going
>up ever since.

Very interesting, of course. Really.

>So to get a real impression of the strength, play it in a match.
>I have good reasons to believe that tactically you will get your
>ass kicked.

Wow, wait a minute, I can tell you, in Blitz games, the normal Crafty kicks
Tao's butt on 2x faster hardware. For FriarTuck this seems much less the case.
Tao won a couple and FriarTuck won a couple. Wait, I'll look it up.

Time control           5/2
Games                  4
Tao                    Celeron 466
FriarTuck              Athlon 1000
Outcome:               2-2

It seems (despite the 2x slower hardware) Tao is tactically better and FriarTuck
is better in the endgame. Crafty's dam outside passers. However that's an eval
thing, not a search thing. I suggest we play a couple 30/0 games tonight, to
verify Tao is better tactically :-) Also at longer tc's I feel less handicapped
by the HW. Deal?

Maybe we can have a conversation about what you did in the meantime, I am
interested.


Best regards,
Bas.

















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