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Subject: Re: Scrappy #1 at ICC

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 14:57:12 07/10/01

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I am not really familiar with computerchess events and experiments prior to 1998
unfortunately as I only started to follow the development then .

Youzr current Scrappy experiment is getting old as you pointed out yourself .

Scrappy and Crafty are idle often enough that another experiment which would
interest me very much would be feasible .

Set your formula to one neutral , allow-anyone-over-2000 one , like
Postmodernist's :

formula = "autocolor & (unrated | (rating >= 2000)) & registered & !freeweek &
!timeodds & (time > 0) & ((!blitz) | time > (inc-5)) & ((wild=0) |  (wild=5))"

This is already slightly changed : PM allows 1800+ but I think this doesn't make
too much sense in general ( there _are_ some very able anti-comp players at that
very low rating range but there are lots more of time-wasting experiences at
this low end ) .

Crafty is expected to do very well against the anti-comps low-rated masters like
the great "kako" et al . I am positive you've been there and done that but it
has been _that_ long ago ; so it has been forgotten or never seen by some
newbies.

Seeing some of them playing against the computers has always been a good cure
for hyperbole and a valid entry to the "computers are GMs" discussion  to my
experience . You have made big efforts as I have learned here to teach your
program how to do much better than others in this category but you rarely have
shown  your program's ability recently .

This would be a really interesting approach for the scrappy account ; much more
interesting than your "rating pig" ( Moreland expression ) "competition" with
"spitfire" .

I hope you don't get me wrong - this message is dead serious , appreciates your
achievements very much and is one _most_ serious begging for a possible and very
interesting event to follow.

pete



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