Author: Daniel Kang
Date: 17:05:41 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 19:50:57, Pete Galati wrote: >On November 18, 2000 at 18:23:25, Daniel Kang wrote: >>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. It didn't come installed with a book, and I didn't quite bother enough to find a reasonable one (it might be a difficult task in itself) for a quick match. I wasn't intent on having a fair match, just something to judge its strength by. And I was just a bit surprised. >>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. Oops, I forgot. It's 5.00 (October 15, 1999). Is there some kind of official opening book for GNUChess that I'm missing? >>I didn't expect it to match Crafty, but barely managing one draw >>in 38 games was somewhat disappointing. Thanks. >I'm not surprised. Interesting. The score is now 42-1-1 in Crafty's favor. Do you know if there are any open-source programs with a comparable license (Crafty's is a bit too restrictive, in my opinion) worth looking into? Thanks again. Dan.
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