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

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:32:29 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 08:24:51, Steve McRiley wrote:

>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

I am interested to see the results of a match between the 'real' crafty and the
chessbase version.

Uri



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