Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Are comments about Crafty 16.6 to harsh or just accurate observations?

Author: Steve McRiley

Date: 05:24:51 01/11/00

Go up one level in this thread


On January 10, 2000 at 22:07:03, Mark Young wrote:

>On January 10, 2000 at 21:14:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 10, 2000 at 20:51:58, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>"it makes positional errors and misplays some endgames"
>>>
>>>"It doesn?t understand piece mobility."...... Very true in this game.
>>>
>>>"Crafty is a weak program compared with the best commercial chess
>>>programs."
>>>
>Your point is valid, I tested crafty 16.6 because it was the version being
>discussed in other post, and it was the version used in the article and that you
>pointed out had a good result in one of the acticles tournament. (The swiss
>tournament I think.) I will now test Crafty 17.4 vs Fritz 6 at game 30. The
>lastest chessbase version of crafty on the Chessbase site and will post the
>results tomorrow.

Why dont you play a 'real' game with the 'real' crafty - Tablebases, big book
and pondering instead of this Chessbase version?

/McRiley



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.