Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:54:24 02/01/01
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On February 01, 2001 at 14:46:19, Chris Taylor wrote: >On February 01, 2001 at 14:22:45, Mogens Larsen wrote: > >>Do you decide which Crafty version to use on the basis of a reliable rating? I >>have no idea if 17.07 is the strongest version under the match conditions you >>use, but it might be a worthy consideration to upgrade. At least for the sake of >>those that use the latest version. >> >>Mogens. > >Last time I looked Crafty 17.14 was on the Chessbase site. Don't know it it is >stronger than 17.07, but it is newer! > I disagree. The testing should continue with 17.07 until an accurate ELO is clearly established. If you always move to the strongest available version, you will never learn how strong it is. Since crafty is updated frequently, you will never complete the thousands of games necessary. The completed set of games should also prove useful to analyze possible weaknesses. It is sort of like the man who had a pile of leaves in his yard. He started to rake them into a pile. Then he noticed his neighbor's yard. There were lots of leaves that were not raked at all. So he jumped the fencd and started to rake. But he noticed after a bit that his neighbor's neighbor's yard was not raked at all, and the yard he was working in was not as bad as that one. So he jumped the fence and started on the next yard. He kept jumping fences and raking leaves, but he never managed to create a tidy pile.
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