Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:57:26 11/01/00
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On November 01, 2000 at 06:20:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On November 01, 2000 at 04:35:35, Andreas Stabel wrote: > >>On October 31, 2000 at 18:23:35, Bruce Moreland 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, you can >>>>download the source or an executable yourself. You have hundreds of other >>>>options, but still you go on and on like a five year old child wanting >>>>candy about playing exactly the one crafty which is reserved for strong >>>>human opponents. >>>> >>>>What is your real motivation for this nonsence ? >>>> >>>>Andreas Stabel >>> >>>I think you may have me confused with someone who doesn't like or respect Bob. >>> >>>bruce >> >>The reason for my post above is the bickering about beeing alowed to play >>one of the many craftys available, when even the source is free and people >>can set crafty up in any configuration they want and play it. >> >>A lot of this bickering is pretty vicious in the tone and completely >>unwarranted for the reasons statet above and from the reasons Mr. Hyatt has >>given, causing my perhaps too harsh statement above. >> >>But I have not got you confused, because the following line from the post >>above: >>--- >>> >>--- >>>Just checked again and guess what? Idle: 44 >>--- >>> >>--- >>>bruce >>shows that you are also part of the bickering, so my statement stands. >> >>Best regards >>Andreas Stabel > >Bruce is not part of the bickering. > >Bruce only responded to hyatt. >Bruce talked about facts and did not complain. > >Uri Bruce doesn't complain about this sort of stuff, he simply offers suggestions that may or may not be doable. He already has my permission to play as many games as he wants. As do a few others like John Stanback, Stefen Jakobs, and others working on non-commercial engines. I have even set Crafty up so that it will kibitz analysis for selected opponents since I don't mind helping them improve their program by seeing what mine sees (I usually have faster hardware than most everybody except maybe for Ferret).
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