Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:55:29 08/08/04
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On August 08, 2004 at 14:01:53, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 08, 2004 at 11:16:06, gerold daniels wrote: > >>i have the latest crafty it is the strongest of the free programs i have.is >>prodeo as strong as crafty and ruffian. thanks. > >I do not know > >Crafty19.14 scored better than many 19.15's versions that compiled by different >people in Igor's tournament Tournaments have little to do with which is best. The error bar for the ratings is so ridiculously high as to make such comparisons impossible. Then there are the questions about book, learning, clearing learning, ponder=on/off, etc... No way 16.19 is better than _any_ 19.x version, other than through random sample error... > >http://www.digichess.gr/infiniteloop/nil/nil6_log.txt > >Is there an evidence that 19.15 is better than 19.14? > >Did somebody look at the games to look for the reason that 19.14 did better than >19.15? > >I think that it is not an accident when old versions of Crafty again and again >perform better in Igor's tournament and 16.19 was a long time the best version >before being replaced by 19.14 > >Note that a possible reason may be learning and if 19.14 already learned >some important information in previous tournaments of Igor about choice of the >opening then it is possible that this information helped it to perform better. > >Uri
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