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Subject: Re: New Fritz 5.32 v Crafty 18.12 CB on two AMD 1200s Full auto232+pgn

Author: Jouni Uski

Date: 03:38:24 10/22/01

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On October 22, 2001 at 06:21:07, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 22, 2001 at 05:40:57, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>>I got the new Fritz 5.32, and the new Chessbase version of Crafty 18.12.  Then I
>>had a thought, why not play them over night.  Give them 40 minutes per game,
>>bang them on the two 1200s.  Let us see who is the better.
>>Crafty v Fritz 10½-3½ 14 games played.
>>crafty +10 -3 =1
>>
>
>
>Something is wrong with Fritz's book
>
>It seems that it has only 1.c4 in it's book(otherwise I cannot understand the
>reason that Fritz starts 1.c4 in every game)
>Note that the result was +5 =1 -1 for crafty in the games that Fritz played with
>white when Fritz won only the first game.
>
>I can understand 1.c4 in the first game and 1.c4 in the second game as result of
>learning from the fact that it won the first game but I do not understand the
>1.c4 in the third game and later.
>
>Even without learning the probability to play 1.c4 in every game seems to be
>small enough in order to suspect that something is wrong.
>
>Uri

Yes You are right - something is wrong. In the end even Crafty start to play
only A22 opening. Is is it learning better? But I suspect Crafty learning is
not working well as Fritz engine.

Jouni



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