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Subject: Re: Crafty not that strong / Crafty not that weak / crafty ... <anything>

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:00:35 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 08:20:57, Jerry Adams wrote:

>On April 24, 2000 at 21:11:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2000 at 19:09:36, Mark Young 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:
>>>
>>>I have a good idea what drives this about Crafty...money. When you pay $X for a
>>>"top of the line chess program". You expect it to *Trash* Crafty and the other
>>>freebee programs. This just is not the case anymore with Crafty, even when
>>>crafty is run a single CPU. What a difference a year or so can make.
>>>
>>>Get ready for more BOB as you climb the SSDF list with better Crafty versions.
>>>Some may see crafty as a threat to computer Chess, but for people that want
>>>"Bigger, Better, Cheaper" the gains by crafty are only a plus to drive
>>>commercail computer chess ratings even higher at a much faster pace.
>>
>>
>>I don't mind discussion or even criticism. I just hate to see it absolutely
>>_dominate_ CCC like it does from time to time...  IE I have a crafty mailing
>>list that is a good place to discuss crafty in pseudo-private.  But at least
>>if someone joins that list (it has about 1500 members last time I checked
>>right after we moved it from John Perry's machine) they know they will see a
>>lot of traffic, but it will be all crafty-related.
>
>
>
>  False Modesty perhaps??  It is difficult to believe that you would not Be
>Overjoyed that crafty is getting the attention that it is, especially among your
>own colleagues.
>>



Nope... I would be perfectly happy to only see crafty mentioned when specific
algorithms or ideas is discussed.  Not in terms of results.  Half the comments
are complimentary... half are disparaging...  result = 0.0 -> the entire
kit and kaboodle could be tossed out with no loss.








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