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Subject: Re: Comet A 90 vs Crafty 15

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 00:07:21 06/01/98

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On June 01, 1998 at 02:42:40, Komputer Korner wrote:

>I have done about 80 games of Crafty 15 vs Comet A90
> and Comet is stronger at 10 2  on a Pentium 166Mhz. If I had a faster
>computer then Crafty would do better, and  I am still having problems
>with uninterrupted matches because if Crafty resigns or if there is a
>perpetual the match will hang. Also Sometimes Comet will not start a
>match. It refuses to make the first move of a match sometimes. I have to
>click the match icon shortcut again. I have now included the beep
>initstring to see if this makes a difference with the match hangs. It
>hasn't solved the occaisonal Comet refusal to start a match however.
>--
>Komputer Korner
>
>The following was done by Tracy Miller and posted in the r.g.c.c.
>"I have now completed five 5 0 matches with various programs against
>Comet using Tim Mann's wonderful new Winboard 3.6.9beta.  Each match was
>30 games.  Here are the results:
>EXChess 4.0     Comet 26.0
>GnuChess 7.5    Comet 22.5
>Tristram 1.5       Comet 28.5
>Arasan 1.5         Comet 28.5
>Crazy Bishop 21.5     Comet 8.5
>
>I finally found a program that seems to be better than Comet at blitz.
>Check out Crazy Bishop's wonderful performance!  I tried hard to make
>conditions equal for these programs.  I made sure the hash tables were
>equivalent, wherever possible.  The only thing I couldn't figure out how
>to do was tell which programs were pondering (thinking on opponents'
>time). "

My Comet- Crafty matches are still crashing with pondering on. No one
knows why.
I will go back to taking the pondering off. P.S. I just went back to
pondering off. it sure speeds up the opening play. No crashes yet but
too early to tell. Another question to Bob Hyatt? will Crafty learn
actual new moves in it's opening book? Will it add new moves based on
previous good results? If so are these limited to the 65,000 position
learning limit that you implemented and if so why a limit at all?



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