Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 11:53:13 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 14:41:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On September 12, 2003 at 14:33:31, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>I see Crafty get some pretty nice games against your engine on ICC. How is >that possible in light of it's inferiorities? Crafty has a pretty indifferent >>opening book and gets alot of lousy positions, and yet still wins creditably >>often. It does worst against Shredder 7.04, but seems to do well against your >>program. > >For the same reason that when you play Deep Sjeng against Deep Sjeng, >it doesn't always draw. My impression is that Bob focuses on not losing fundamentally winable positions (focuses on fundamentals), rather than refining search. I've seen Crafty lose middlegames embarassingly to CT15 and Shredder, but I've also seen those same programs stumble into technical endgames with Crafty which they seemed to have no idea they were lost. MH > >-- >GCP
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