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Subject: Re: Crafty rating on ICC

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 15:43:52 10/28/99

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On October 28, 1999 at 17:03:18, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On October 28, 1999 at 14:40:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 28, 1999 at 09:30:41, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>>The argument here is not crafty's rating but by how much crafties gain by
>>>playing against humans only.
>>>
>>>Amir
>>
>>
>>It seems to be more than that.  Because I play on a daily basis zarkovx,
>>spendrups (nimzo at present I think), fritz (via cstal2 interface) and now
>>Ferret is back on and has played at least 20 games over the last 24 hours (I
>>have not studied them as I really don't have the energy to look at what is
>>going on at present).
>>
>>So "crafty" isn't _only_ playing humans.  That is a false assumption.  And has
>>been forever.  I can't ever think of a period of time where it didn't get much
>>action against other programs, except during the annual wmccc events where
>>almost everybody is in one place and ICC is not important for a week or so.
>>
>>Anybody can find crafty's history of playing against computers on ICC, just log
>>on, do an =computer, and then "search crafty <opponent>" where <opponent> is in
>>the computer list.  You can see when they played, how many games they played in
>>a row, and how often they played.
>>
>>You know, it is _much_ more reasonable to make statements _after_ investigating,
>>rather than just making statements.  That way the statements are never wrong.
>>
>>just a 'policy' suggestion...
>
>Before Amir flames you, he said "crafties", not "Crafty".
>
>bruce

I'm not doing much flaming recently. I'm more at the receiving end at present.
Are the moderators on vacation or something ?

I remember we had this special policy about Bob. Is it still in force ?

Amir





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