Author: Mike Adams
Date: 14:50:49 07/11/01
Go up one level in this thread
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
As a programmer of a chess engine which i am proud of, pulsar 2300 icc blitz, i
cannot understand this kind of post. You act as if Bob created a formula and
paid big bucks for a machine to reach the top of the best list. Were is the
mention of the 1000s of hours of programming and debugging which also was
neccesary to create crafty. As someone who has spent hundreds of hours
createing pulsar i can tell you its not an easy chore.
As to the nice machine well that is one of the perks that we programmers
allow ourselves after we spend all our time creating our electronic beasts. I
can emphasize with a programmer who wants to see his top program perform on a
top machine far more than someone who spends 55 bucks on gambit tiger and then
runs it on his gigahertz plus machine. Its one of those things you need to be
on the best hardware to optimize your programs performance and give it the best
chance against everyone else who is running on top hardware.
As to the formula i think Bob said all that needs to be said there
himself. I"ll add the fact that he is running both crafty and scrappy indicates
he is not hiding the results of the formula. Any sophisticated user can judge
craftys strenthg by looking at both accounts.
Mike Adams
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.