Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:48:36 11/08/02
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On November 08, 2002 at 15:23:02, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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? I never did. I couldn't get to the machine that was running Crafty from my house, so there was no way to fix it until I got back to the office the next day...
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