Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:17:06 08/05/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 13:32:09, Torstein Hall wrote: >On August 05, 1998 at 10:29:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 05, 1998 at 10:06:35, Jeff Anderson wrote: >> >>>On August 05, 1998 at 08:57:05, Havergal Brian wrote: >>> >>>>I was wondering if someone who currently logs a PC (using a crafty engine) onto >>>>ICC (chessclub) would mind using version 12.6. All crafty clones appear to be >>>>using version 15*...but my test matches (60 min/game) demonstrate the possible >>>>superiority of 12.6 over the others. In a recent match, 12.6 beat 15.16 22 >>>>games out of 30 with 3 draws! 22+ 5- 3= 60 min/game on a PPro 200 64 MB. >>>>No need to go into details because this was just a casual match over the >>>>weekend. It would be interesting to see how 12.6 would do on todays PII 400. >>>> >>>>Just a thought. >>> >>>MrAnonymous(c) is now a Crafty 12.16. >> >>Remember that a lot of work has been done on "aggressiveness"... which is >>the right idea for playing humans, but not for playing computers. It is >>very likely that the recent changes in this regard have weakened Crafty >>against computers. But Humans have reported that it is *much* harder to even >>get a draw against it now than 6 months ago. >> >>Not sure which is the best approach, of course. :) > >I think I can recall a post from you saing that its something wrong with Crafty >15... recently. I thin it was after loosing two games agains Fritz 5. >Or is it fixed now? > >Torstein Hall This is version 15.18 that is broken, and it is still broken. It has been losing right and left to computers, although it still seems to play perfectly ok against humans. The "eval" is somewhat unstable for reasons unknown so far, but against humans it is not killing it... go figure...
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