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Subject: Re: Crafty strength discussion

Author: Alain Lyrette

Date: 06:23:34 04/23/00

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On April 23, 2000 at 07:04:22, blass uri wrote:

>On April 23, 2000 at 05:35:48, Jürgen Hartmann wrote:
>
>>Its a super achievement for Crafty that people now seriously discuss whether
>>17.10 is stronger or weaker than the current leader of the commercial pack,
>>Fritz.
>>
>>It looks astonishing that nobody bothers matching Crafty anymore with, say,
>>Nimzo, Tiger, Shredder or Rebel, which I personally find strong also.
>>
>>Does it mean that Crafty 17.10 has reached them now? Incredible.
>>
>>Jürgen
>
>No
>
>jouni uski posted that crafty won Fritz6a in blitz in the nunn match so other
>people went to check it.
>One win does not prove that crafty is better than Fritz6a.
>
>I decided to test it against Fritz5(16 bit) and Fritz5(16 bit) won the nunn
>match 11:9 in 5 minutes per game.
>in 5+5 time control the result in the nunn match is now 7:7(4:4 and 6 draws)
>
>Uri
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