Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:55:43 06/01/04
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On June 01, 2004 at 12:59:47, Sune Fischer wrote: >On June 01, 2004 at 12:35:18, Matthew Hull wrote: > >> >> >>It's like pulling the legs off a bug to measure how fast it's wings flap. They >>are dismantling the chess-playing entity known as "crafty" and measuring one of >>it's component parts, then claiming the result as the product of how "crafty" >>plays chess. It is simply "evil". >> > >Yes but you can hardly expect anything else. > >I have little doubt that Crafty is in its strongest configuration is when it is >operated by Bob himself, running on a 4-8 way opteron, playing with learning on, >ponder on, 15 GB hash, 250 GB ETBs on ultra fast SCSI drives, private tournament >book, etc.. > >So no matter how we choose to play with Crafty we cannot make Bob happy :) > >Consider though, that for many of the other engines similar things apply. > >-S. Bob is "always" happy when crafty is played with everything in "default" except for the bookkeeping things like hash, hashp, cache, tbpath, etc. That's the way _I_ play it, that's the way I test it. That is the way I believe it plays the best it can play. Nothing wrong with someone turning anything or everything off. But it should not be called "Crafty" in that case. Perhaps "Crafty (customized)" or something to indicate it is not the "normal" crafty...
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