Author: Peter Berger
Date: 08:21:46 03/21/02
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On March 20, 2002 at 13:05:07, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >On March 19, 2002 at 16:04:26, Peter Berger wrote: > >>On March 19, 2002 at 15:36:24, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>Against older versions of crafty, it was terrible when out of book (versions >>>11.x if I remember correctly). It was easy for me to get a huge positional >>>advantage that I sometimes blew later. Maybe I should play some serious games >>>but the computer will beat me, I guess. It might be fun, but I should set the >>>proper environment. >>> >> >>Do you sometimes play "serious" games against your brain child Gaviota? Is it >>any real advantage to be the programmer of it in real games? Gaviota is strong - >>still rating-wise it should be similar to your own one on faster hardware I >>suppose. > >I guess... >I almost never play against gaviota. Very few times and always for testing >purposes. >I think that I am scared :-) it is a lose-lose situation. If I win, it will >confirm that I am lousy chess programmer. If a lose I might get mad! > >>It could be a very nice, fun and thrilling "WinBoard" event, too. For example >>games could be played at ICC (very objective conditions). We could have a >>webpage featuring the match and I am interested enough to sponsor and host >>little Gaviota it if this adds to the motivation :). > >That would be interesting, in fact it would be good for me and for Gaviota since >I might find things to correct (things to correct in my brain would be >more difficult :-) > >Regards, >Miguel > >>Regards, >>pete I will send email to work out the conditions - Gaviota is already set up and it just told me it is looking forward to this match against its father ;-) Regards, pete
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