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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 15:06:32 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?

I have played matches against the "real" Crafty with Bob at the controls.
Crafty lost, the games have been posted here and on RGCC, it should not be to
hard for you to recover the post if you want to see the games.

>
>/McRiley



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