Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Continue the experiment........

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:04:37 02/08/02

Go up one level in this thread


On February 07, 2002 at 22:01:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I think it is more pointless today, unless you go back to something like
>the Jakarta version of Crafty 11.something.  Crafty's eval is not "simple"
>and giving it 100:1 time odds against _any_ program is not going to show
>any more than if you give (say) rebel 100:1 time odds vs Tiger, or Tiger
>100:1 odds vs Fritz or whatever.
>
>The point back then was a somewhat simple eval with a decent search vs a more
>sophisticated program at a far slower speed.

You'd have to go back to the original Rebel too, considering
it seems to have gotten faster and it's probably smarter too.

I wonder if the knowledge gap between Rebel and Crafty is really
smaller that it was before. Admittedly, I haven't seen a 11.x Crafty
recently.

What about Little Goliath vs Shredder :)

I know whom I'd pick :)

--
GCP



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.