Author: Chris Taylor
Date: 10:52:32 02/02/01
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On February 01, 2001 at 16:54:24, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I work all day, and I have never made a tidy pile? Enuf to live on tho..... Guess if a job needs doing, it needs doing by me. 17.14 against the rest. Autoplayer on standby............. Chris Taylor
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