Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: New SSDF rating list

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:51:38 12/02/97

Go up one level in this thread


On December 02, 1997 at 06:46:23, Karsten Bauermeister wrote:

>Hello Bob, hello Thoralf
>
>how about giving / testing crafty to / in Sweden? Many people in the
>world would be very interested in knowing, how Crafty does there.
>Especially I would!
>
>Karsten

this is sort of doable now.  Last time anyone tried, auto232 seemed to
be working, but it is a very "touchy" piece of software that (in my
case)
likes to misbehave as hardware changes, because the timing changes.  IE
it doesn't like to get a response move too quickly after sending a move.
I have a delay mechanism that is adjustable, but this simply makes the
entire procedure unreliable at times.

I can now burn a CD with a complete ready-to-run install on it, which I
couldn't do a few months ago.  This would make it fairly easy to
distribute
a decent book with learning already "in place".

however, from statements the SSDF guys have made in the past, they
primarily
test "commercial programs".  I'm not sure why, but can speculate that
there
are enough "amateur" programs that it would increase their workload by a
huge amount should they also include the host of amateur programs that
are
now "public"...

Tony Hedlund played some crafty vs X games a year ago helping me debug
the
auto232 code, however.  It depends on whether they want to test or
not...



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.