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Subject: Re: How About Djr vs Crafty???

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:56:59 07/22/00

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On July 22, 2000 at 05:39:34, blass uri wrote:

>On July 22, 2000 at 04:59:48, David Blackman wrote:
>
>>On July 21, 2000 at 07:45:31, Graham Laight wrote:
>>
>>>I've noticed in some of the threads that Bob has stated (or sneakily implied!)
>>>that Crafty does some things better than than Djr does.
>>>
>>>How about an ICC challenge between the two programs, guys?
>>>
>>>-g
>>
>>I don't think there is much doubt that Crafty does a lot of things better than
>>Junior. Probably even Amir Ban would agree with that.
>>
>>On the other hand Junior does some things better than Crafty. Most noteably,
>>Junior is significantly faster than Crafty. But there might be some more subtle
>>things Junior does well also.
>>
>>All the indications are that there is not much difference in strength between
>>the two. A match would be very interesting. But so would almost any competition
>>between the top 20 or so programs.
>
>
>I disagree.
>
>I think that there is more than 100 elo difference between the best program and
>the 20th best program.
>
>The difference between Junior and Crafty is probably smaller but I still believe
>that Junior is between 50 and 100 elo better than Crafty(see the ssdf rating
>that suggest 65 elo difference).
>
>Uri


I assume you mean on equal hardware, which I hope to never see happen in any
important events.  :)



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