Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 18:28:59 06/05/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 18:15:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>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'.
I'm sure you would win this bet, but if your opponents give up trying to win and
play for a draw instead, maybe you will lose the bet. Read mlbernstein finger
notes. I myself have drawn a half dozen games (unrated) against shredder, cstal
& crafty clones, generally with an exchange sac endgame, interestingly. The
programs can't bring themselves to sac material back to activate their rooks.
Of course, I lose the rest of the time, but I'm sure I am scoring more than my
fair share. By the way, I'm a weak NM too, just like mlbernstein.
>My 'machine' may change again, too. I might be on a 1mhz Z-80 next time you
>see me there. :)
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