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Subject: Re: Freeware Revisited (more test results)

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 14:43:25 09/10/98

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On September 10, 1998 at 17:19:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>My only suggestion is more games.  20 is on the small side although it is
>interesting.

Yes, the only problem is time... I ran the game/60 matches over night, the
other matches when I had time to do so. I would like to run many more games
while I am at work, but I have a wife and two kids here, always complaining
about the much too loud/noisy (how do you say that in english?) computer...
the fans and hard disks together form a sound like a starting Boeing 747...

> But I have played thousands of games vs computers on the
>servers and have seen crafty win 10-15 in a row before the series starts
>to even out, and I have seen it lose 10-15 in a row before beginning to
>catch up some.

I saw something similar in the match Phalanx-Comet, where Phalanx won
4 games in a row, then one remis, then lost 6 games in row!

>I think 15.18 is playing fairly well, and 15.19 seems better and will be
>out soon...  But the others are not dumb programs either, and hopefully
>everyone is getting better.  All the better to put more pressure on the
>commercial guys.  :)

:-)))

I would really like to test Crafty and maybe some other freely available engines
against some of the commercial ones. Automatically of course...
Maybe it would be a good idea for Ed to release a Winboard-compatible
Rebel-engine, if he really drops Auto232 support ;-)



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