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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:13:15 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 19:23:57, Mark Young wrote:

>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

The one I was thinking of was the games vs Fritz or Hiarcs (I don't remember)
using the handle Wheeler on FICS.  I think Crafty lost every game. As it was
doing on the server against every other computer.  It isn't doing that badly
today...



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