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Subject: Re: Crafty Clone was disqualified, what a shame

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:36:29 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 15:57:05, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 15:17:51, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1330
>
>Sorry, I think that's nonsense.
>How can a clone be considerably faster in nps than its "original" ?

No problem

Instead of printing number of nodes you multiply it by a constant.

>Eval and depth are much different too.

No proof.

If you add pruning and change the evaluation when 90% of the code is the same
then it is possible to do it.

>
>Anybody who watches a match between these 2, must immediately realize that the
>differences are big.
>
>Furthermore, we know the preliminary version of List.
>
>Last not least, List is stronger than Crafty.
>
>I suspect, it's a shame what had been done to Fritz Reul, the author of List.
>
>Uli

I do not claim that List is a crafty clone but being stronger than Crafty is
also no proof.

The main reason that I did not suspect that it is a clone is Dann's message.

Uri



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