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Subject: Re: Crafty vs Hiarcs 7.32 10-0 !!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:22:17 07/29/99

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On July 29, 1999 at 10:05:29, walter irvin wrote:

>On July 29, 1999 at 03:27:06, Nisse Persson wrote:
>
>>1111111111  Crafty
>>0000000000  Hiarcs7.32
>>
>>However I changed the default settings of Hiarcs 7.32 as much as I could and it
>>played with an opening book made of my last 3 bullet games on ICC.
>>
>>The changes shouldnt mean much though cause I've seen alot of other people
>>playing computer against eachother with changed settings of the program.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   Nisse P
>you dont say which crafty this is?? i know 16.6 is slighty woarse than hiarcs
>7.32 , now i dont know about more recent versions of crafty?? these versions may
>be better ?????


You missed his sarcasm.  His point was that lots of people are playing games
and using inefficient set-ups (two programs on one machine, pondering disabled,
oddball books, books developed for another program, etc) yet they report the
games as though they really mean something.

He was just pointing out that if you try hard enough, you can corrupt any
program to the point that you can get the result you want...



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