Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:03:56 05/13/98
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On May 13, 1998 at 17:57:10, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 13, 1998 at 16:20:50, Don Dailey wrote: > >>From a pure software standpoint, is Crafty a better program than Blitz? >>Please don't consider the engineering factors like cray assembler or >>special highly hardware dependent things. > >I've been watching Bob's brain during the development of Crafty. He's >learned so much that it has to be better. > >He's gotten like 50,000 games with Crafty, plus the help of a bunch of >people who will point out mistakes. > >But I'll let him answer now, if he likes. > >bruce that's always a good point. CB usually played 5-6 games a year, those in ACM events. Little time for significant tuning/testing, few games against strong humans to figure out what was really "missing" or "wrong". Of all the things that come to mind about "crafty", the term "robust" springs out first... because it has played *so many* games against IM and GM players, I don't have to hold my breath wondering if the parallel search will even work on this machine... That is a *huge* change from Cray Blitz. *huge*. I can actually expect to go to a tournament and see *no* bugs of any kind. which we *never* did with CB...
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