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Subject: Re: Comet A90

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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