Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 12:23:02 11/08/02
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On November 08, 2002 at 15:15:06, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 08, 2002 at 14:41:34, James Swafford wrote: > >> >>Sorry if this is old news... I don't get much time to >>read the posts these days. >> >>Crafty and Sjeng played a 5 3 match the other day which >>ended in favor of Crafty. Have they played since? >>I'd like to know if GCP's claim that Sjeng is stronger >>is true. > >From the games I have here (not sure if they're complete), >it looks like Sjeng won 23-21. > >Considering Crafty played most games on hardware that seems about >twice as fast as mine, I think this is a pretty nice result. > >>My guess is the engines are pretty close, but I'm not yet >>convinced Sjeng is stronger. > >I'm not out here to convince you. When the program is released, >it will be able to do so without my help. > >I accepted Roberts challenge because I disagreed with his >claim that ICC games are a good way to determine which >program is stronger. My argument was that you end up >(unintentionally) playing with debug versions too much. >This happened in the match, Sjengs first 13 games being >played with a handicapped personality. I didn't complain, >fixed the bug and played on, confident that Sjeng would >come back in the match and repair or limit the damage. >Robert terminated the match at game 44 and posted the >following two messages: > >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?263693 >http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?263695 > >-- >GCP What was the record between Sjeng and Crafty after both sides had finally switched to the appropriate versions for their program?
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