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Subject: hi Roger, xcuse me, ur using crafty 19.?. thx. (yep crafty is cool) nt

Author: maria clara benedicto

Date: 04:42:24 01/20/04

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On January 20, 2004 at 04:54:45, Roger Brown wrote:

>After 50 games the score is 9 (Crafty) 11 (Ruffian) 30 in favour of Ruffian.
>There have been 30 draws which seems to indicate that Crafty is not going to
>serve as a doormat here.
>
>Technical stuff:
>Pentium III
>800 mhz
>No ponder
>Winboard gui
>15 minutes and 5 seconds per game
>50 mb of hash per engine
>Ruffian Leiden is using the Leiden book
>Crafty is using the old Crafty book (12 Mb) from Professor Hyatt's site
>
>Don't bet the family fortune on this one folks.  Prof. Hyatt is not going to get
>my money on this bet that Crafty is going to be used to wipe the floor.
>
>Quite frankly it simply amazes me that I have access to so many strong programs
>for free.  On top of that Professor Hyatt has the thing with the source just
>free for the downloading.
>
>The attitude seems to be "Here, this is my pride and joy.  Take your best shot,
>I do not mind if you can do better".
>
>Me, I would hide my hard earned trade secrets but I am different...
>
>Thanks Professor Hyatt for the hard work and professional level of pride and
>creativity that went into your program Crafty that got me started down this
>computerchess road so long ago.
>
>Thanks to all authors for the free stuff (and yes, for the commercial programs
>that I shell out my hard earned money for!) that gives me so much pleasure.
>
>Later.



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