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Subject: Re: Sensation: Crafty 17.10 - Fritz6a 12-8!!

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:54:27 04/21/00

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On April 21, 2000 at 13:18:50, Jouni Uski wrote:

>This really surprised me. Crafty won Fritz 12-8 in Nunn test with blitz! level.
>(One computer). 17.7 lost clearly, Bob, what have You done? Crafty also won
>Lg2000v2.5 13-7, when 17.7 lost.

While each version of crafty is usually a bit stronger than the previous ones
(and I think 17.10 is clearly the best so far) such variations are not at all
unexpected.  Even if you should repeat the experiment and the results were
reversed, it would not be a surprise.

Crafty's strength is excellent, no doubt about it.  But for a single set of
experiments among engines that are approximately equal, it takes thousands of
trials to get an accurate finding.

We'll probably never know which of the two is actuall stronger, because by the
time we have performed enough tests to know the answer, we will be talking about
Crafty 18.* and Fritz 7.* and won't even care about the old versions any more.
;-)



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