Author: ERIQ
Date: 16:16:55 03/17/04
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On March 17, 2004 at 18:39:37, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 17, 2004 at 16:59:19, ERIQ wrote: > >>After reading what others thought about other unix compatable engines, I found >>pepito and just for fun started a blitz match w/ crafty which ended 4-4-2 dead >>even. I then set pepito to aggressive and started a 10min/40move match and wow >>at the moment crafty is lossing yet another game and the score after present >>game will be 7 wins 1 draw 0 losses in favor of pepito. I have noticed that w/o >>a book crafty tends to lose matches but this is its worse beating to date. > > >I do not see the points of matches with no book. > >Even if you want to test general knowledge it is better to use the nunn match >or something similiar. > >Playing a match from the opening position with no book can cause programs to >repeat almost the same game again and again and give you no information about >the question which program is better. > >Even if the games are not almost the same repeating the same opening line can be >enough for result that give almost no information about the strength of the >programs. > >Uri I can see your point but it will show how well a program learns!
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