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Subject: Re: Crafty 17.10 not that strong

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:29:44 04/23/00

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On April 23, 2000 at 00:32:45, Chessfun wrote:

>On April 22, 2000 at 17:25:18, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 2000 at 14:46:28, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry, I don't read all posts, this one caught my eye because it was at the top
>>>of the board.
>>>
>>>If Jouni played some games this fast or faster, then my opinion would be the
>>>same, it's too fast.  That isn't to say that I have not run games at that speed,
>>>I have, and they were too fast to judge the strength of a program.
>>
>>I agree. As far as I know the development of Crafty is aimed at improving its
>>strength at tournament time control. Nunn blitz matches are insignificant in my
>>humble opinion. On top of that it's almost impossible to make any sound
>>conclusions based on these results, except that Fritz6 appears to be stronger at
>>blitz. I don't think it's possible to say anything about 17.07 vs. 17.10.
>>
>>Best wishes...
>>Mogens
>
>
>I generally agree the results of fast blitz games mean very little.
>Though as with humans maybe we should have blitz type results by
>someone like the SSDF it is still an interesting subject.
>
>Funny how knowone said anything about blitz being bad when Jouni posted
>that on his machine at nunn 1 crafty scored better than F6.
>
>Thanks.


If you will go back to the beginning of that thread, post #2 was by me.
I said "I suspect the results will be different if more games are played..."

I know what to take with a grain of salt, and what to take as base fact.



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