Author: Chessfun
Date: 13:59:34 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 16:55:45, José Carlos wrote: >On April 24, 2000 at 16:40:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >>I am not quite sure what drives this sort of discussion, but I would like to >>suggest a few things to reduce traffic on CCC: >> >>1. If you don't like Crafty, don't use it. >> >>2. If you do like Crafty, use it, but use it 'quietly' and avoid posting >>results here. That only serves to incite those that don't like Crafty to >>higher levels. >> >>3. If you want to complain about things that Crafty doesn't do well when >>compared to commercial programs, then by all means _write_ _your_ _own_ >>program, and write it in such a way that it doesn't do the things you >>dislike. It is far easier to 'put down' than to 'roll your own'. >> >>4. If you want to point out things that Crafty does well when compared to >>commercial programs, then see #2 above. >> >>The crafty-lovers aren't going to convince the crafty-haters of anything. The >>crafty-haters are not going to convince the crafty-lovers of anything. The >>discussions simply drag on and on without ever solving a thing. >> >>If you have a program you know can throttle Crafty easily, drop by ICC or FICS >>or chess.net and demonstrate its ability. Crafty is playing on all three > > What's the name of the "official" crafty account on Chess.net, Bob? I'd like >to play Crafty, but no every crafty-clone. > > Thanks in advance. > > José C. Try crafty(C) Thanks. >>servers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using identical hardware/book/tablebases >>and configurations. >> >>We have just reached a milestone on our ftp site, which I discovered about a >>week ago. If you take every hostname that has ever downloaded a copy of crafty >>(I am only counting crafty downloads not tablebase downloads which might be for >>other programs of course), extract the hostnames, remove duplicates, the count >>is now over 500,000. An amazing number. And that counts about a dozen >>major ISP's as one site each (ie aol.com has a few hosts, each host looks like >>one download site when in fact, it could be hundreds of different users.) >> >>The point of that is that there are plenty of people that are interested in >>using the program, interested in helping make it better, or interested in >>suggesting new features which I have included whenever there is time and the >>feature is reasonable. The 'negative' discussions don't change my mind about >>what I am doing, so they are effectively pointless. >> >>I would personally like to see CCC have much more about 'computer chess' and >>much less about "crafty is ....". It is somewhat out of control, IMHO, and is >>serving no useful purpose of any kind... >> >>Just an opinion of course, as always...
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