Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:38:29 05/18/98
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On May 18, 1998 at 19:17:22, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >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 don't lose sight of the ultimate goal here... to make *all* freeware programs stronger... I'll tell you everything I do, in the hope that it (a) makes you stronger and (b) you explain things that you do well that I don't. We all profit. And have fun with the matches as well. Someone is playing "DrunkenQueen" on ICC, using comet. It seems to play well... based on a couple of games I have watched...
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