Author: James Robertson
Date: 17:09:16 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 18:30:35, odell hall wrote: >On April 24, 2000 at 17:51:01, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: > >>Well, since several people have addressed the issue that your testing is >>incorrect because you test both programs on the same computer, and since you >>seem intent on ignoring the postings of Dr. Hyatt as to *all* of the many >>reasons why your testing is flawed, I'll point out a couiple of different >>issues. >> >>1. Crafty (Actually Scrappy) has established a rating (in blitz) of 3333 on ICC >>over 4000+ games. How on earth can you say that this program is "not that >>strong" when it has established itself as clearly better than the best GMs on >>ICC, including several of the top 25 GMs in the world? The evidence is clear and >>overwhelming. > > > I think it is pretty clear that he is speaking comparatively, ofcourse he >doesn't believe crafty is weak, He simply believes that compared to the Best >commericial programs Crafty is not that strong, And I Agree. It is amazing people can make statements like this when Crafty is 8th on the SSDF list and within 30 points of SSDF #4. How can anyone come to the conclusion that Crafty is not that strong compared to the best commercial engines? James > >> >>2. Perhaps you could find youself a nice quad Xeon to test both Fritz and Crafty >>on. I'm certain that your results would be different from your test. Since you >>obviously don't mind handicapping Crafty by playing on an inferior hardware >>platform, I would have to assume that you woudn't mind handicapping Fritz by >>playing on a very Crafty-friendly platform. >> >>For some reason you seem to have some kind of axe to grind regarding Crafty's >>strength. I'm not sure why, but it would seem logical for you yo attack >>something other than it's strength. It's only *too* obvious to all informed >>observers that your title "Crafty not that strong" is patently absurd, and >>primarily intended to start a flam war. >> >>Chris
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