Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:07:42 10/05/00
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On October 04, 2000 at 16:59:39, walter irvin wrote: >i was looking at chess ratings on ICC .Scrappy which only plays humans has a >huge ,extremely high chess rating .Why????? because it plays great , more >importantly plays only humans .humans just cant compete with it .no human could >come on ICC and dethrone a beast like that , not kasparov ,annand ect .not at >fast chess bullit or blitz even woarse when there is no increment .if Scrappy >was to switch and play only computers its rating would fall over 200+ points .i >think there should be two separate ratings for computers .one vs humans the >other vs computers . I would be very careful if you put money on that. :) I don't believe any human can beat it in a lengthy match of 5 0, or even 5 3. But I am _certain_ that it can lose a 4 game match. I have seen it happen. It chooses openings randomly, and it can make some bad choices in consecutive games. However, this randomness makes it nearly impossible to beat over a longer series of games. It won't repeat games. It will play some oddball games. Etc... I am back to running my test experiment again. Scrappy only playing humans. Crafty playing everybody. Last time I tried this, their ratings were about the same. We now have a plethora of automatic interface programs on ICC. Crafty is about 200 points lower than Scrappy. Whether that will last or not is an interesting thing to watch, for as long as I can afford letting the second quad xeon run scrappy (both have identical hardware/TBs/etc.)
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