Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 06:07:33 06/01/04
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On June 01, 2004 at 03:44:59, Sune Fischer wrote: >On June 01, 2004 at 03:27:37, José Carlos wrote: > >>> >>>It's a very powerful feature, too powerful IMO if not all engines have it. >>>I'm quite sure even Ruffian would lose 10-90 if Crafty had aggressive learning >>>and Ruffian just used a small book without learning. >>>You can be of the opinion that's a fair result, I think it is pure nonsense. >>>Granted, it demonstrates that Crafty has learning that works, but what other >>>conclusions can you hope to draw from it? >> >> >> I disagree but I think we can agree that it's a matter of taste. IMO, Ruffian >>has a very good selective search. Using your reasoning, we could say "if Ruffian >>beats Crafty we can draw the conclusion that Ruffian has a much better selective >>search, but the result is not fair, it should use only null move. Otherwise, the >>comparison is nonsense". :) > >Yesterday I played a few games on fics against a Crafty clone, I think it was >already game 5 where Crafty managed to repeat a won game. >I was very close to resigning already at move 10, the position was not lost at >that point but I knew the game would be of course. That was my system and it has a very narrow opening book when playing Computers. This is why it repeats the moves so quickly as there are few options. I do not use any of the books from Hyatt's site and mine are all had crafted and of course tuned by the book learning feature. > >More importantly, where is the _fun_ in that, why even play the game? >Who in the world gets a kick out of seeing the same games over and over? > >-S.
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