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Subject: Re: Crafty

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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