Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:09:28 11/20/02
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On November 20, 2002 at 05:04:31, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 20, 2002 at 04:56:03, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On November 20, 2002 at 04:51:24, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On November 20, 2002 at 03:44:43, Daniel Clausen wrote: >>> >>>>And at least in the past, Crafty was the engine which had more >>>>pawn-evaluation stuff in it than any other engine. >>> >>>Is this a joke? >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>It was not meant as one. Wasn't Crafty (one of) the first engines, which >>contained a lot about evaluating passed-pawns? > >Not in a thousand years. > >What you're remembering is all boasting Robert did when he noticed >Crafty knew some things about outside passers or majorities that >the then current version of Fritz didn't. > >I don't think Fritz has ever been a very 'smart engine' (though >it's gotten better), compare to others like Rebel, Hiarcs, etc. > >To extrapolate this to say Crafty has a better pawn evaluation >than *any* commercial is ludicrous. > >-- >GCP I can tell you _exactly_ when commercial engines added outside passed pawns. You can back up to 1995 to see that they didn't do much then. And they _certainly_ weren't doing things with majorities. Most still don't in fact. I've hardly said my pawn eval was better than the commercial programs, but I _will_ say that I did things they didn't do, _before_ they did them. how many commercial programs fell for my Bxa7 trap? In 1995 every last one that I played against on ICC. How many today? :)
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