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Subject: Re: What Happened To Crafty(C) Rating At ICC ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:44:10 03/18/04

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On March 18, 2004 at 13:44:50, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 18, 2004 at 10:45:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 18, 2004 at 02:16:24, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>I am just throwing out ideas.. why does Crafty _seem_ to be behind so many now
>>>when before it was leagues ahead...
>>
>>secrets vs no-secrets is the main issue...
>
>If you compare Crafty to the top professional engines, you are certainly right.
>But I think Peter was referring to amateur engines.  In this case, I doubt that
>the secrets vs no-secrets issue has any great importance.  With the possible
>exception of Stefan Zipproth (Aristarch), I can't think of any amateur engine
>at all which appears to contain any important secrets.

I think that this assumption is wrong.

I believe that a lot of programmers have important secrets but their program is
weaker than Crafty because they did not get success in implementing basic stuff.

Uri



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