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Subject: Re: All the pros got scared away by crafty

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:58:20 01/06/05

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On January 06, 2005 at 18:39:49, enrico carrisco wrote:

>On January 06, 2005 at 14:59:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>When they thought they could steamroll, all of them entered.
>>
>>Now that they know crafty can clean their clock, their absence is rather
>>conspicuous.
>>
>>IMO-YMMV
>
>Gosh, I don't remember Crafty cleaning Hiarcs' clock at all in CCT6.  A blitz
>loss to Zappa in the tie-break caused the default win for Crafty.

They always have tie-breakers like that (e.g. in WMCCC contests) and Ferret lost
in that way one time (IIRC).

>Of course, the facts tend to take the sensationalism out of your post.  :)

But not the gist of it.  They professional programs are CLEARLY afraid of
getting clobbered by crafty.

>Btw, I searched the net for about two hours last night looking for Amy 0.8.7 and
>was unsuccessful.  Seems your ftp was down or some sort of connection problem
>and no one else seems to host the windows version.  Are you back up?

Try the command line ftp client.  No passive mode.



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