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Subject: Re: JW-2 Group 1 Crafty-Comet 9-1

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 15:24:06 07/12/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 18:21:41, Pete Galati wrote:

>On July 12, 2000 at 17:57:45, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2000 at 17:36:39, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On July 12, 2000 at 11:47:04, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>On July 12, 2000 at 11:45:39, blass uri wrote:
>>>><snipped>
>>>>>I read some days ago in the winboard forum that CometB23 has a big
>>>>
>>>>a typing mistake (should be a bug).
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>But it does sound like a big bug.
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>Maybe, maybe not. The more than dubious moves took place in something resembling
>>a lightning game as far as I can recall, so it could be an example of extreme
>>time trouble and/or hashtable error. I haven't heard anything about buggy moves
>>resently, but I think I'll take a look at the Comet B23 games in my collection
>>just in case.
>>
>>Best wishes...
>>Mogens
>
>Oh, those were in lightning games?  I don't think they count for much.  I was
>suspecting that in _this_ case, maybe there was a problem with what's in Comet's
>comet.ics file, because Comet's not as stong as Crafty is, but it pretty far
>from being that much af a pushover.  If Comet's not the second strongest
>Winboard engine, then it's at least very close to it.
>
>Pete

Definatly wouldn't call it the 2nd strongest, as Gromit, LG2000, TCB, SOS, and
maybe Yace are all very strong.  Personally I thought LG was the 2nd best, at
least until I saw how SOS mashed LG to pieces.



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