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Subject: Re: What's the fuzz about Crafty??

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 00:04:30 08/27/99

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On August 27, 1999 at 02:40:49, Terje Vagle wrote:

>I'm running Crafty 16.15/16.16 on a PII-450, 128 MB ram,Win-98, Winboard 4.0.2
>and HT=64MB
>
>I'm running Rebel 9 on a portable P-266MMX with 32 MB ram,Win-98, HT=13MB
>
>Running them manually against each other, Rebel wins EVERY time,( about 35 games
>so far ) both at blitz and at longer time-controls.
>
>Any comments?
>
>( Yes I know that Crafty is free and Rebel is not, but we all know what internet
>can provide these days )
>
>And yes, I have the original Rebel 8 and 9.

This kind of post comes up sometimes and I don't understand it.  The only
reasonable conclusion I can draw from a report that Rebel has won 35 in a row
against Crafty, while running on inferior hardware, is that something is wrong
with your Crafty installation.

Winning a few in a row is random and might indicate some superiority but might
not.  Winning 35 in a row is completely insane, it's like a thousand rating
points.  That's just not true, and I'd be surprised if someone here tried to
suggest differently.

bruce



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