Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 09:09:24 07/12/04
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On July 12, 2004 at 11:35:05, Kurt Widmann wrote: >Congratulations for crafty's improvements. >I am not a programmer,just a cheerleader for the under dog crafty >and always hoping that your program will be an equal to Fritz and Jumior. >In this tournament I noticed a glaring weakness of crafty as to the exploitation >of its own strength ie protected passer and also the reluctance to acceptance a >draw against same or higher rated opponent which resulted in the loss of 1.5 >points. >It seems to me that crafty needs instructions to remove these weaknesses. >In two games crafty was missled to attack an appearant opponent weakness >instead of playing to its strenght,in both cases it was the c-pawn. >Why not try to instruct your program to persue searh in favor to advance >its own protected pawn if it can not find a value gain from going after an >opponents weakness within and or go into a defencive mode at a certain horizon >limit. And also take into consideration the rating of its opponent in an >appearant equal position to secure a draw first before imparking into >uncertainties. >Keep reaching for the top, Kurt Widmann a former ICCF player. Not too bad a showing for having no great hardware advantage vis-a-vis the commercials. Massive scalability it's principle equalizing feature. It did not get a chance to show it in this contest, but still finished respectably. On the other hand, the ParSOS game was pretty dismal. Crafty either has a search bug or it needs a major eval tweak. It wandered into some rather ugly positions in this event, which I've noticed is something of a bad habit on ICC.
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