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Subject: Re: What is Wrong with Crafty??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:02:45 06/09/01

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On June 09, 2001 at 22:00:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 09, 2001 at 21:44:33, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On June 09, 2001 at 21:41:20, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>On June 09, 2001 at 18:02:05, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>>>
>>>>If you are not famaliar with JRLOK, he is Roman Dzindzihashvili. He recently set
>>>>a human blitz rating record against Scrappy (Hyatt's Crafty) of 3419 by winning
>>>>3 games in a row! So I guess he must know something about beating computers.
>>>>
>>>>The games today will be played with 25 minutes plus a 5 second increment.
>>>>
>>>>It should be interesting.
>>>
>>
>>[D]r3n1k1/pp3p1p/2qNp1p1/8/3R4/3Q3P/PPP2PP1/6K1 w
>>
>>Crafty may be having problems.... Here playing white Crafty played b3?? against
>>JRLOK. b3 is a outright blunder, I can't understand why any computer would play
>>it at any time control.
>
>
>If that was Scrappy, anything could happen.  Students are finishing up final
>projects and beating on the machine scrappy uses pretty heavily.  Anything can
>go wrong with lots of compute-bound processes competing for cpu resources.
>
>No telling..


Did you see this game today?  I can't get b3 out of Crafty at _any_ depth
whatsoever.  I will try to locate it (the log file) assuming it was scrappy.
It certainly makes no sense since I can't get even a single-cpu version to
consider it...



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