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Subject: Re: Crafty v17

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:28:59 08/21/00

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On August 21, 2000 at 08:20:01, Jason Williamson wrote:

>On August 21, 2000 at 06:47:02, pavel wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2000 at 05:55:03, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>>
>>>On August 21, 2000 at 01:27:23, pavel wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 21, 2000 at 01:12:14, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I am determined to be heard. Crafty for tournament play by SSDF should be called
>>>>>Crafty V17 as suggest earlier.
>>>>>Wayne
>>>>
>>>>maybe you should put   "as suggested by the author himself earlier"
>>>>
>>>>atleast the guys in SSDF will take it seriously (??).
>>>>
>>>>or they would say "oh these are a bunch of kids who likes crafty" (joke)
>>>>
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>pavel
>>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I think we should restart with a later version 17.11 and higher, there is many
>>>signs that these versions are clearly better, compare for instance the list for
>>>Chessbase engines, where 17.11 is placed much higher than 17.07.
>>>
>>>Bertil SSDF
>>
>>IMO there is no need of restarting, since so many games has been played.
>>all these games would be a waste then.
>>'I suggest' that when you play with crafty next time pls use the latest version
>>available and name all the version V17, in this way it will be easier.
>>and you dont have to play with every version. just uptodate version 17 with the
>>versions that are available......
>>'even better suggestion' use the auto232 to connect chessbase interface with
>>winboard, AFAIK there is no hassle at all. and in ICS (internet chess servers)
>>there are MANY computer accounts who are playing chessbase engines like that.
>>'I am sure' that there is no problem with the autoplayer at all .........
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>pavel
>>
>>ps, I am sure people probably has better ideas ;)
>
>This is the idea that makes the most sense to me with engines like Crafty that
>will be updated more then once a year.  Bascily, SDDF has to just see the fact
>there isn't all that much that differnt from 17.7 and 17.11 just some big bug
>fixes, while from 16.x and 17.x has a lot of big changes.  Basicly, if it was my
>rating list I would just measure the main version.

I do not understand about what bugs you are talking

I read that 17.8 is the version that won the ICC tournament.
and I read also that 17.7 is identical to 17.8 about chess moves.

Uri



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