Author: José Carlos
Date: 03:01:51 07/30/04
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On July 30, 2004 at 03:00:28, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >On July 30, 2004 at 02:17:04, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>In the last few days I was busy studying the commands >>of Crafty and I must say it's enormous what can be done >>in (my beloved) console mode with this engine. Many thanks >>to Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt for his great work. Is there >>any other comparable chess program with such a lot of >>fantastic features? BTW: I like it if things are very >>simple and in most cases there is no need to start a >>(complicated) chess GUI, the console mode will do. Of >>course: I may be an exception in my way of thinking -:) >>Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com] > >In my opinion is Patzer by Roland Pfister a program with great settings in >textmode / console mode too. But you have right, Crafty is just great. > >The problems is that Crafty have an unspectacular playing style and played a >little bit boring ... compare to other programs. OK, the program is strong and >perfectly executed (positional, endgame, strategy) but the most of the games are >boring. I am a fan of tactic computer chess and I must search a long time if >will see a fast winning game with a mate combination by Crafty. > >Like AnMon. >AnMon loosed very fast but can win very fast too. After more as 2.100 games in >my database are only 17.4% remis!! Only the older Gromit have a better remis >statistic in my database. Phalanx the king attacker with 18.4%. I like Phalanx >and AnMon ... fire on the board! Crafty after 2.900 games with 34,3% remis >games. Only Nimzo have a little bit more remis games in my private database with >36.2%. > >For me is Crafty the Chess Genius in amateur computer chess area. >Chess Genius playing style is boring too. > >The best attacker is Gandalf 4.32f, newer versions are not so strong in >middelgame attacks. > >Best >Frank Hi Frank. The most entertaining games I've ever seen in my computer are played by Tao vs Ruffian (free version). Lots of crazy games. Ruffian is a better tactician but Tao sees much more than its depth suggests (complex qsearch?). José C.
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