Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 05:40:21 06/20/04
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On June 19, 2004 at 09:42:32, Bryan Hofmann wrote: >On June 18, 2004 at 18:40:50, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: > > >>Let's re-install some common sense again here, by that. > >So you want to re-instal some common sense, OK. My Crafty is able to do >something no other crafty is able to do -- it can solve the Nolot position 6 in >less then a second! How was the feat accomplished you might ask.. Well it is >rather simple and anyone with crafty can make their crafty solve this position >in less then a second or any other position as well... > >Simply create a text file that contains the following; > >ponder off >setb rnbqk2r/1p3ppp/8/1ppPp3/QPP1P1n1/P4N2/4KbPP/R1B2B1R w - - >store -1 >exit > >Then run the command > >crafty < textfile > >Then you can start up crafty and enter in the Nolot position 6 >rnbqk2r/1p3ppp/p7/1NpPp3/QPP1P1n1/P4N2/4KbPP/R1B2B1R b - - >and run analyze or go and presto -- it will return the axb5 move everytime. This >can be accomplished with any test move and if I wanted to take it a step further >I could hard code test positions into the crafty program. Common sense here >would show that test positions that are published such as your favorite WM test, >show nothing as to the strength of the engine. positions have been hardcoded in the past - this has been proven by changing colors on the position 9I forget which program - but it was a DOS program ( a while back) - so nothing is new under the sun ...
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