Author: Leo Dijksman
Date: 04:03:31 11/22/02
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On November 22, 2002 at 01:24:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 21, 2002 at 23:10:06, Edward Seid wrote: > >>On November 21, 2002 at 22:32:21, ERIQ wrote: >> >>>Just got an opening book for Phalanx but no opening book for crafty. played a >>>game just to see. Maybe I should set the resign alittle lower for crafty >> >>The problem with Crafty is that if it's playing another computer, it won't >>resign. I'm not sure what's the logic behind that design. So in my WB 90 30 >>Ladder, I end up waiting and waiting for Crafty to get mated in hopeless >>positions. Perhaps Dr. Hyatt can enlighten us... why not make resigning against >>other computers an option with Crafty? > > >The issue is this. The other night I watched Crafty vs a commercial program, >crafty ended up with a lone king, the other program had a king rook and pawn. >It obviously had the krpk table, but apparently not the kqrk table. It advanced >the pawn to the 7th and then moved idly around until the game ended in a 50 move >draw. All the while crafty's eval was at something like -Mat09 or something... > >The moral? Don't resign against a computer, you never know _what_ will >happen... That is why I don't resign when playing a machine. Thats your opinion ofcourse and thats ok for me, but I still dont see a good reason why you have "disabled" the possibility to let the user decide if he wants to let Crafty resign or not in comp-comp games. Ofcourse its very easy for me to let Crafty think he plays a 'human' so he will resign anyway in comp-comp games if I wants but I dont think thats the right way to do, is it? Best wishes, Leo.
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