Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:42 08/30/00
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On August 30, 2000 at 07:37:39, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On August 29, 2000 at 21:33:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 29, 2000 at 15:59:19, Steve Coladonato wrote: >> >>>I have downloaded the evaluation copy of Swiss Perfect and have no idea how the >>>round 1 pairings for the WMCC 2000 were made. No matter what settings I use I >>>can't get anywhere near to the tournament settings and even after using the >>>round 1 pairings and results, round 2 pairings don't add up either. >>> >>>Probably I shouldn't use that tournament as an example but perhaps Dortmund or >>>something else? >>> >>>Steve >> >> >>Did you get the initial seedings exactly as they were done in London? > >Bob, > >Thanks. No, my initial ratings were incorrect. Bill Gletsos provided me with >the correct initial ratings in his post and that straightned out the problem. > >Tbanks again. > >I was glad to see you enter the tournament and hope to see Crafty in the future >tournaments. Do you have any thoughts on where it didn't perform well and >whether improvements will be made? > >Steve It had at least two identified problems: 1. The opening book. This is always difficult when you play an "automatically generated book" vs a "hand-crafted book". I don't believe the problem is insurmountable, as otherwise computer chess will _never_ catch up to humans. But it is a hard problem. 2. For unknown reasons, it was moving far too quickly. I am afraid that I may have given Graham a .craftyrc file with something wrong in it. We didn't have much time at all to get ready for this, otherwise I would have had him play a couple of test games and send me the logs to be sure everything was ok. Of course, with a better book and better time management, it could have done even worse...
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