Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 16:24:15 08/22/00
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On August 22, 2000 at 19:06:11, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. Excuse me ? Where did I say Crafty did not play _well_ against comps ?. I said it was tuned against Gm's. I have heard Proff. Hyatt say just those words or close to it. I have heard him say to _effect_ his interest is directed to make crafty play against Humans. I hope my memory is not failing this ole 70 year old retired EE. Regards Wayne
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