Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:06:11 08/22/00
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On August 22, 2000 at 17:56:23, Chris Carson wrote: >On August 22, 2000 at 17:09:24, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>I picked Crafty, looks like I was wrong on this. Hind sight should have told me >>otherwise. Dr Bob Hyatt does not tune his program against comps. His interest is >>in playing Gm's, so I think that is how he tunes his programs, not a good way >>for comps competition. >> >>Wayne > >This is not a knock on Crafty or Dr. Hyatt. Crafty is a good program and Dr. >Hyatt has done a good job with it. :) > >I wonder how Crafty could be tuned to play against GM's at 40/2 when almost all >the games that I know about for v17.x are from the chess servers against a >variety of people (or programs) at fast time controls (< 30 min/game). If there >is a way to tune against GM's at 40/2 (let alone other programs), I am very >interested to know how to do it. > >If it is tuned to play against GM's, I would love to see some matches like the >one's Rebel, Junior, Fritz have done recently. > >Again, I think Crafty is a good program. Is is possible it is tuned to play at >faster time controls against players on the server that have not been "noplay"? >I had read a lot recently that it was tuned for longer time controls, I just do >not understand how. > >Just a question, no hidden meaning here at all. I don't think you can presume from a few matches that crafty does not play well against comps. Look at the recent internet match where it beat all the commercial programs. In a few games, anything can happen.
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