Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:15:20 06/05/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 15:04:20, Mark Young wrote: >I had the time today to log the top ICC chess programs and read their finger >notes as I do from time to time. When I came across Crafty's (Bob Hyatt's finger >notes) Bob's finger notes claim Crafty is running on a 486/66 with 4 MB ram, and >a 40MB hard drive. At the same time it is using 20GB of EGTB's (Ahhh. >compression software.:) ) > >Is this just a joke or some kind of protest or just plain sarcasm for other >underreporting their hardware? A possible example Mofongo, claiming to run on a >PII 450 and running Crafty has a rating of 3210, at the same time Crafty (bob's >crafty) running on qaud Xeon PII 400 has a rating of 2969. {Bob?) Yep... it is 'sarcasm'. We have _so_ many liars on ICC, even though I don't see the reasoning behind it... ie 'matemaster' is one, but there are many. Mofongo's machine is actually right... he just only plays GM players at blitz, and only at 3 0 or 5 0 time controls, so he is nearly impossible for a GM to beat. And when you are very selective in who you play, this happens. IE I'd be willing to bet that I could break 3400 if I just wanted to maximize my rating without actually trying to 'play better'. My 'machine' may change again, too. I might be on a 1mhz Z-80 next time you see me there. :)
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