Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 13:43:40 10/03/02
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On October 03, 2002 at 14:27:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 03, 2002 at 01:06:05, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>Now when we know the facts: new program from scratch and 100 points stronger >>than Crafty (in comp-comp play at least). Quite an achievement or what? >> >>Jouni > > >Bob never had any strong opinion at all. I looked at the executable very >quickly and >was pretty convinced it was not crafty even before doing so, because of some of >the >search results posted here. > >That is my only conclusion to date. It _might_ be 100 points stronger. It >might not be. >Hard to say since the book is a critical part of the system and the Crafty book >as >distributed is really too wide for comp vs comp play due to the requirements of >a wide >book for the chess servers. It could still be a clone of another program. Or a >program >written with a lot of help by some well-known (but unrevealed) author. > >Who knows? > >And, from my perspective, who cares? Stubborn but no stupid... :-)
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