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Subject: Isn't Crafty 16.19 a better Blitzer than version 18.1 ?

Author: Aloisio Ponti Lopes

Date: 06:10:15 01/25/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 16:26:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>>Here's one quick experiment: On your 200Mhz machine, at a time control of
>>5 3 or faster, Gambit Tiger might lose to Crafty. It scored +12 -12 =7 on
>>mine.
>
>
>I can tell you absolutely that your data is flawed.  Crafty is _absolutely_
>weaker at blitz than it is at longer time controls.  And this is based on
>_thousands_ of test games, not on a few dozen.  The things I do in my search
>rely on fast hardware, or else long time controls.  The faster the game, the
>worse Crafty will do as its simple q-search will get it into trouble faster
>since null-move failures happen more often at reduced depth...

Maybe against 16.19 the results would have been diferent ?

A. Ponti



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