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

Author: Mark Young

Date: 16:23:57 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 18:23:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 11, 2000 at 18:06:32, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>>
>
>weren't those against this same broken version (16.6, etc.???)  Ie nothing
>in the last 3 months+???

Which time, I have played more then one. I don't think it was 16.6, but the
version will be in the posts.

>
>
>
>>>/McRiley



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