Author: Chessfun
Date: 05:12:36 10/31/00
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On October 31, 2000 at 07:55:50, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 31, 2000 at 07:06:36, Andreas Stabel wrote: > >>On October 31, 2000 at 00:28:55, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>On October 30, 2000 at 22:49:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 30, 2000 at 21:30:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>>I just went and checked to see what Crafty has been doing recently, and it has >>>>>been idle for 44 minutes. It has played four games in the past eight hours. It >>>>>has played seven games so far today and it played eight yesterday. >>>>> >>>>>It doesn't seem that you need to worry that much about people hogging it. If >>>>>Crafty has been idle for 45 minutes, why not play against a Tiger? >>>> >>>> >>>>This is not real common. And Murphy's law often strikes. IE I logged on >>>>Friday and had two different complaints from humans that got interrupted. >>> >>>Just checked again and guess what? Idle: 44 >>> >>>bruce >> >>What's itching you. There are litterally tens of craftys you can play any >>time. There is scrappy which has the same hardware as crafty Scrappy is dedicated to play only humans not computers. > >I remember that scrappy had twice slower hardware than Crafty. > >I remember that the idea behind scrappy was to see the influence of hardware >difference against computers and against humans. > >Scrappy is slower than Crafty unless there is a change that I do not know. > >, you can >>download the source or an executable yourself. > >It is not going to help if you do not buy a new computer with more than one >processor. > >Uri That's not correct; These are scrappy's finger notes; 8: scrappy is only playing humans. crafty plays anything. This is an experiment to see how avoiding computers affects the overall rating. If you operate a computer and don't like this policy, tough. 9: crafty and scrappy use the same identical hardware and software configurations. Feel free to play crafty so long as you follow its finger notes. Sarah.
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