Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:18:38 08/25/00
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On August 24, 2000 at 19:38:34, Tim Mann wrote: >On August 21, 2000 at 16:47:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>it had a book. There is some sort of problem, as yet undetermined, that >>caused it to behave strangely early in the game. > >Hmm. I hope there isn't some new Alpha-specific problem in Crafty's code (a >64-bit uncleanness or the like). Bob hasn't been developing or testing on >Alpha; I had to compile Crafty for him for this event on one of the machines >here. So software rot is a real possibility. > > --Tim I think it might have been Graham not understanding how crafty behaves when you use both book random 0 and mode tournament. It does search after it has exhausted all the ! moves. That might make it look like it is out of book as in game 2, it did a search on the book moves, found they were _all_ below -.5, so it said "no way" and gave up on the book and searched all moves normally instead. So it wasn't a broken book, it just didn't like the line it started down... Bob
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