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Subject: Re: Strongest Crafty ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 12:03:39 12/05/04

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On December 05, 2004 at 14:48:06, Thomas Gaksch wrote:

>>>it would be nice to read an comment from DR. Robert Hyatt or Mike Byrne about
>>>the strongest version.
>>>In my tests Crafty Classic 2004 is much stronger than Crafty 19.17. An the
>>>strange thing is, that Crafty 19.17 seems to be weaker than the other "old"
>>>Crafty Versions (19.13 and 19.08).
>>>
>>>regards
>>>Thomas
>>
>>Nothing strange.
>>
>>I read that every tester found that 19.17 is weaker.
>>The problem is that it seems that Hyatt did not test Crafty under winboard or
>>under interfaces that other use it.
>>
>>Maybe it is better in text mode or in the special conditions that Hyatt use it
>>but it seems that almost nobody use it in the conditions that Bob hyatt use it.
>>
>>Uri
>>
>>Uri
>
>why should crafty play under winboard or arena weaker than in text mode? i don“t
>think that there is an bug in the winboard protocol of crafty.
>
>Thomas

I remember some post of mike byrne that showed that Crafty19.17 has different
behaviour under winboard and under text mode.

I have no idea what is the reason and I did not look much at Crafty's code.

Uri



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