Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 16:17:22 05/18/98
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On May 18, 1998 at 18:44:47, Komputer Korner wrote: >I have been doing matches at 60 moves per minute with Comet A90 against >Crafty 15_7 by following my own KK Tip of the Week # 57 for playing >matches within WINBOARD. For the most part Crafty has been kicking the >hell out of Comet and Crafty was playing black without an opening book. >I am getting the odd crash after a game is finished, so somehow Comet is >not following the Winboard specs correctly. I don't get these crashes in >Crafty versus Crafty matches. I have as yet been unable to get Peter >Fendrich's program Startwb.exe to work properly so that matches can take >place with a set number of games and to have the programs switch >colours. Peter's program accounts for these if I could only get it >working. >-- >Komputer Korner You must be joking, right? I mean this: 60 moves per minute??? are you sure, or was it a typo by any chance? At that time control Crafty is going to hide just about any commercial prog... As for 'kicking the hell out of Comet' my scores, obtained on the servers, with Comet running on my AMD K6/233, 128 MB RAM, small hash, vs Crafties (dual, quad, you name it) are about 6.5 - 3.5 for the Crafties, with the super-sharp Comet book (lots of the Marshall and gambits), no tablebases for Comet, no learn function, at 3 0 and 5 0. I have noticed though that at 4 4 or 5 5 (four min per game and 5 min per game + 4 or 5 sec inc), Comet fares better than usual. Crafty is generally stronger in the endgame, preserves better pawn structure, while Comet plays an aggressive, king-oriented game, focusing quite well on the opp's castling area... Another thing I noticed is that Crafty heeds passed pawns well while Comet has yet to learn that lesson. When, and if, (and I am optimistic about this) Comet learns the value of the passed pawn properly, and when it starts using TBs, and when its opening book is comp-oriented, and when its learning starts functioning under Winboard.... when, and if, all these whens have been made real, then I guess that Crafty is going to have a mighty challenger for the 'best' free program. Even now, a lot can be done about the whens... Let me find some more free time... and then we can try them out on a server, if you wish, under equal conditions -- let's say you use a PII/266, 16MB hash, no tablebases - I use my machine and you run whatever Crafty you wish and I run Comet... What do you say to this throwing down a gauntlet? I guess that's what it was called in the days of yore. Djordje
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