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Subject: Re: 100:1 NPS Challenge

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 07:23:26 12/17/03

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On December 17, 2003 at 10:21:58, Slater Wold wrote:

>On December 17, 2003 at 09:35:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 2003 at 09:05:55, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>I guess I will be running the 100:1 NPS challenge.  Here's the info:
>>>
>>>
>>>I will use any books.bin & bookc.bin that Bob asks me to.  The book.bin will be
>>>created from enormous.pgn.
>>
>>My suggestion is to use book.bin, bookc.bin and books.bin from my ftp
>>machine.  book.bin has no learning data so it will start off in the best
>>possible way.
>>
>>remove position.bin before game 1.
>>
>>And, as I suggested previously, if, after a program leaves book, it is
>>in an obviously won or lost position, the game gets aborted and the next
>>one started.  There is no place for "book kills" when the goal is a time
>>handicap match.
>
>Agreed.  The only loss Crafty has suffered in the Rebel match was a book loss.


BTW, what were the results of that match?



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