Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 12:00:36 12/01/99
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On December 01, 1999 at 14:41:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 01, 1999 at 14:26:34, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>The blitz rating for crafty has plummeted to under 2800 in a fairly short period >>of time. Has the latest version acquired a bug or we witnessing a normal rating >>oscillation at its low ebb? For awhile there crafty sported a 3250+ rating that >>must have sent frightened GMs diving under their desks for cover. What happened? > > >It is a bug. I just found one serious thing, but I have simply not had time >to do further analysis. I am currently in a hospital bed (fortunately with a >phone and my trusty notebook) recovering from surgery. Once I get home later >this week, I hope I can fix everything. Surgery! Not for something serious I hope. Please get well soon. > >The current bug dealt with having a "char passed_pawn_value[8]" array... which >I scaled up so that a passer on the 7th starts at a score of 132. Unfortunately >+132 (in a char) is a negative number which was not what I intended. :) > >It will be back before long... > >The other problem is getting the new majority/candidate passer code tuned. If >it worries too much about that in the middlegame it can go astray. If it >worries too little in the endgame, it can lose easily. > >It will take time to get everything back into 'harmony'...
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