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Subject: Re: Comet A90

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 09:35:40 05/19/98

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Only after I have confirmation that Comet A90 is not pondering during
the winboard matches, will I play 40/2 games between them. Unless the
learning feature when running in Winboard works for Comet, Crafty will
eventually kick its butt regularly. These days a program must have a
learning feature or it eventually dies against the competition.

--
Komputer korner

On May 19, 1998 at 08:09:49, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On May 18, 1998 at 21:38:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>
>Well said. It's not my aim to make Comet better than Crafty (I am pretty
>sure, that Crafty is somewhat stronger). My aim is to have a good
>program playing interesting chess, but sometimes Comet behaves
>
>>Someone is playing "DrunkenQueen" on ICC, using comet.  It seems to play
>>well...  based on a couple of games I have watched...
>
>still like a drunken queen (good alias).
>
>I personally think that many programs have to give credit to Bob Hyatt
>and Crafty for getting ideas and suggestions thru the code of such a
>strong program.
>Thanks a lot for releasing the Crafty's source code.



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