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Subject: Re: 100:1 NPS Challenge

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 09:51:35 12/17/03

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On December 17, 2003 at 11:31:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 17, 2003 at 10:37:57, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 2003 at 10:23:26, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>
>>>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?
>>
>>1-0 Rebel.  They stopped the match after 1 game.
>>
>>anthony
>
>
>Wrong match.  :)
>
>Slate has been doing an 8:1 match vs Rebel, between "project" (Crafty
>with about 8x faster hardware) vs "thehate" (rebel on slower hardware,
>no idea where the name came from.  :)  )

It used to be Hawkeye's undercover name.  It was a 3000+ bullet ID, with no (GM)
or (IM) identification.  It was reported to speedtrape over 1,000 times.  :D

>I think the games so far were two draws, one loss, 4 wins, from crafty's
>perspective.  He was playing the live on ICC as of late last night, but both
>accounts seem to be off this morning...

Crafty will win, no doubt about it.  Look at the games.  Crafty is strong-arming
Rebel.  But how will Crafty v11.0 do?  ;)



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