Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:45:20 08/24/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 21:18:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 24, 2000 at 14:48:41, Michel Langeveld wrote: > >>On August 24, 2000 at 14:00:37, kurt wrote: >> >>>As a user of crafty engine I will say something >>>about its book again. V17 book shows 12..Qb6 13.Qh6 as 0.00 evaluation, >>>it is not allowed to see 13.Qg5 as played by Rebel. This shows that Craftys >>>openings are inadaquate against solid oponents such as fritz,nimzo,shredder etc. >>>It may have better chances by playing without any book against them! >>>If we want to see crafty playing even with the best,we need to compile >>>theoretical novelties with solid proven and tested lines. We crafty users >>>should ask Dan Corbit to open a file for our input. And coordinate the testing >>>of this new "2000 book" for crafty. Dr. Hyatt,Dan Corbit and ALL Users of >>>FREE CRAFTY " lets get with it". >>>Best regards to all, >>>Kurt Widmann >> >>Well then Crafty needs at first a better implementation of using the CAP data. > >Nope. In some cases the CAP data has problems. IE it will convince any >program to follow the qc7 line in the Rebel game because it looks good for >black when it isn't... > >The problem there was that Graham and I put this together way too quickly. I >have a better book that he is hopefully using for the last few rounds. But we >simply didn't have any time to even verify that the program is running correctly >on the alpha. Everything happened too quickly as I only found out I could enter >crafty without going about 2 weeks prior to the event... > >In these events, opening preparation is nearly as important as engine >preparation, and I generally take care of this just fine. There just wasn't >time this time... due to too late a start. I think it would be a really good idea to post process the EPD data to check each subsequent position. I find that almost all problems dissapear after one additional ply, and two plies is even better.
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