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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:45:21 06/19/01

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On June 19, 2001 at 09:01:32, Bas Hamstra wrote:

>>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?

I will want to play at least 16 games. The 4 games you quoted mean really
nothing. I wanted to play more, but the operator changed the formula midway.

(Yeah I did exaggerate a bit about the asskicking of course, but
I wanted to say that FriarTuck really is better than 2100 FICS. :-)

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

I am running testsuites to tune 'the magic constants' :)

I wont be able to play tonight, but perhaps we can set another date?

--
GCP



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