Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:15:11 07/12/04
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On July 12, 2004 at 10:44:11, Peter Berger wrote: >On July 12, 2004 at 09:47:54, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: > >>Congrats to Dr Hyatt. It seems that Crafty's book was not up to par, > >What makes you think that? I think the book worked pretty well. The two openings that made me shudder, were crafty as black in a Ruy where it played Bd6 blocking the d pawn (against Falcon I think, could have been Be6 blocking e pawn, I don't have game handy) and the ParSOS opening where it played the early b3. It is not easy to cover every possible hole in the book, and have something reasonable planned for every possible opponent move. It is almost impossible. There are some things that need work. It'll be better next year. And next year, regardless of whether someone else doe sthe book or if I do, there will _still_ be an occasional bad line chosen by Crafty. Just as surely as other bad things happen in non-chess events. :) For a program with a lousy search, primitive evaluation, poor parallel search performance, crumby book, "rude quiescence search", a program that had no chance to win, a program that would have been competing for years had the author thought he had a chance to win, I think it did pretty well. We'll see about better hardware for next year maybe, depending on when and where, and if there will be any significant number of participants.
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