Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 17:43:09 12/31/03
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On December 31, 2003 at 17:34:03, Sune Fischer wrote: >On December 31, 2003 at 14:47:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >Of course at home everybody kills Crafty completely, heck at home everybody >kills Junior and Shredder too :) I suppose I am the only exception, then. I don't kill any engines at home, except intentionally inferior engines like tscp and Faile which are designed for their pedagocical value rather than for strong play. There are a few other engines I can achieve almost 50% against (including Frenzee and SOS, but definitely not Crafty, Junior or Shredder), but that's all. >>You need a bugfree engine to kill crafty, that's all. In my case, that would definitely not be enough. I am sure there are still serious bugs left in my engine, but fixing them would not make it even remotely close to Crafty in playing strength. I would have to spend lots of time tuning my search and eval and doing low-level optimisation in order to have any hope of achieving that. In short, I'm 100% sure that my engine will *never* have any chance to beat Crafty in a long match. Perhaps it could if I spent enough time and energy on it, but I have many more interesting hobbies to spend my time on. On the other hand, improving my engine until it plays an even game with SOS does not seem entirely impossible (though it won't be easy). Tord
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