Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:07:42 07/10/01
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On July 10, 2001 at 11:41:33, Albert Silver wrote: >On July 10, 2001 at 11:09:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 10, 2001 at 08:50:20, Chessfun wrote: >> >>>On July 10, 2001 at 08:48:09, Chessfun wrote: >>> >>>>Since the Spitfire message, why not a Scrappy one. >>>> >>>>Seems Spitfire caught the draw bug. >>>> >>>>Recent games of SpitFire: >>> >>>Opps >>>77: - 3379 W 3223 Mecking [ br 5 7] B22 Mat Jul 10 01 08:24 >> >> >>Mecking can certainly be a problem when he wants to be. :) >> >>Bob > >I just want to take advantage of this moment to congratulate you on your great >achievement. I realize it has been a long and hard climb as you aspired >incessantly to the highest ranks. And now, after all your efforts, and having >paid your dues (i.e. the last installment on the Quad), YOU (= Quad + Crafty + >breathtaking formula) have finally reached that most coveted of places in the >sun: the ICC blitz no. 1 !! Yes! Now Crafty can say it is the best of the >best... AGAIN! Brothers, sisters, let us join hands and rejoice! > >Why the very honor of having my modest post linked to yours is one I will >cherish for the rest of my days, oh great >quad-plus-crafty-plus-breathtaking-formula account owner you! Could I humbly ask >for a scanned image of the creditcard receipt that made all this possible? It >would be given a place of honor in the forthcoming site in the "How it all >started" section . > > Albert :) Seems that "scrappy" is a continual cause for conversation. As I said before, I ran it as an experiment, then I terminated it, and was greeted by lots of messages (and a few emails) asking for "scrappy" to return. Too many computers continually playing Crafty. Or if it is free, computer operators jump in as soon as a human game ends. I gave up on trying to stop this since some are just going to be discourteous no matter what. Scrappy solves the problem. It plays the kind of opponent I want to see games against (human GMs). It doesn't play with computers. And it does, on occasion, sit idle for long periods of time. All ok by me of course... I don't care whether it is ranked #1 or #1000. Any more than I care about the rating of "crafty". I only care to see it slowly improve, which is the goal for playing on ICC. If I decided to stop working on the program for a while, it would disappear from ICC for that time...
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