Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:52:48 08/21/00
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On August 21, 2000 at 08:28:59, Uri Blass wrote: >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 That is part of the point. Why test both 17.7 _and_ 17.8? And who should look at the source to see whether a new version has enough changes to justify testing it against the older versions? _every_ version has had bugs fixed that were in previous versions. Where a bug could be something that might make it crash (rare), or either incorrect knowledge, or incorrectly implemented knowledge. Or even missing special-case knowledge...
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