Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:50:57 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 18:23:25, Daniel Kang wrote: >Hi everyone. > >I was just thinking about hacking into the source code of GNU Chess but wanted >to judge its strength beforehand. I'm running a 50-game match against crafty >17.6 at 5 minutes per game with pondering off (on a single CPU, granted, a bit >short) and it has now scored one draw in 38 games, losing all others. I >deliberately widened Crafty's opening book usage (width 10) to make it fair for >GNU Chess, for which I have no opening book. You should let GNU use it's book, what you're doing doesn't make any sense to me. >From what I've seen, this seems to >have neutralized Crafty's opening book advantage, as it seems to come out of the >opening badly almost as often as GNU Chess does. There were some near-duplicate >games, but I've seen enough unique games to come to a conclusion that GNU Chess >is being completely outclassed. Crafty is a lot stronger, a lot. >Is it really this bad or am I just somehow using >a weak version? You don't say what version you're using, do you? I like the new and the old versions of GNUchess personally, but neither one would be capable of winning very many games against Crafty, but it would happen occasionally, give it it's book and that will give it a better chance, but Crafty is going to kick GNU up and down the block anyhow. >I didn't expect it to match Crafty, but barely managing one draw >in 38 games was somewhat disappointing. Thanks. > >Dan. I'm not surprised. Pete
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