Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 17:58:17 05/01/00
Go up one level in this thread
On May 01, 2000 at 03:47:52, pavel wrote:
>On April 30, 2000 at 16:56:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 30, 2000 at 09:51:26, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>All games on Two Cel 433's.
>>>Ponder=on.
>>>Tablebases used at 25 and longer.
>>>Nunn 1 positions.
>>>No opening books are loaded.
>>>
>>> 1 min game Fritz 6a 18.0 - 2.0 Crafty 17-10
>>> 2 min game Fritz 6a 17.5 - 2.5 Crafty 17-10
>>> 3 min game Fritz 6a 15.5 - 4.5 Crafty 17-10
>>> 5 min game Fritz 6a 15.0 - 5.0 Crafty 17-10
>>>
>>>I happened to let 5/0 run through the night.
>>>As a result it looped through and played 5/0 twice.
>>>
>>>In the second set of 20 games the score was:
>>> 5 min game Fritz 6a 9.0 - 11.0 Crafty 17-10
>>>I am not sure what to make of it.
>>
>>
>>You should replay the match and first make sure that any learning file is
>>cleared before restarting.
>>
>>However this kind of "strange" result is not unusual and reflects the
>>variability of chess matches and explains why it is needed to play as many games
>>as possible.
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Hi Christophe
> i dont get it why would you think the learning file should be
>cleared for crafty? If so then the same should be done for Fritz as it has
>as_good_learning_feature_as_crafty.
"Any learning files must be cleared" means that both engines learning files
should be cleared.
> your above statement makes no sense to me
>;9.
Is it OK now?
Christophe
> And even if crafty wins because of its learning feature, (though i have
>mentuned lotsa times before that crafty doesnt have it regular position.lrn and
>book.lrn like the "normal" non_fritz_crafty in under chessbase GUI!!), then it
>is because it has a better learning code then fritz, which is a part of its
>palying strength. Why should it be handicapped from it?? Crafty is having enough
>trouble runnign under fritz GUI, now if it is stoped from learning, then it is
>as good as making crafty the_way_you_like_it_to_play!! Negative thinking form
>you and unexpected too :(
>I really hope reply to my post and make it more clear what you mean :)
>pavel
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.