Author: ERIQ
Date: 21:03:19 03/12/01
first I would like to say that I do not understand how the match was not fair. I hear two main complaints: 1) The book 2) The learning being disabled my answer to 1) is that Yes the book did not favor crafty, but it did not favor CT either as it was CA. 5.1's book. is it good or bad, frankly I'm no expert on the subject but as both programs had to get both sides of the same or simular line, I fail to see how either program gets advantage ! It just proves that one of them could deal with a bad hand better than the other. In short they both had the same problem lines. I noticed also that crafty had good position right out of the opening in several of the games but as time went on and sometimes got short It loss. A human master (fide 2400) would have beaten CT in a few of those games or at worst drawn a few. My answer to 2) how much is the learning feature going to really help in only 10 games anyway, sorry this just sound like a cop out too me. But anyway Crafty reached equal postions in almost all the games. It seemed to go astray more in the late middle game, and in the end game, even in what I thought was winning postions out of the opening. Don't get me wrong I do like Crafty I have it as an engine in CA and on the linux side of my box, but this is not the first match I've seen it take a beating from that tiger at 5:00 min game. It just looks like CT is a better blitzer. I've played other matches like 10:00 min game and up and Crafty has won or been even, but at blitz it alway seems to come up short against CT. I think this time Crafty just took a solid beating in ten games nothing more nothing less. But my point in displaying it was just to show that even the old tiger is still very very dangerous. PS. No teeth missing from that cat :)
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