Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:00:40 05/19/98
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On May 19, 1998 at 12:35:40, Komputer Korner wrote: >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. > this is not a "guarantee" however. IE the book I use has 330,000 games in it. It will take a *long* time to learn which openings win and which lose with a big book... >-- >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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