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Subject: Re: Crafty16.4 for Fritz

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:23:57 02/04/99

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On February 04, 1999 at 10:46:30, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:


>More speculation. Two years ago we had this giant discussion about DB having or
>not having the same quality evaluation functions of the commercials. Then Bob
>put Crafty as an example of what DB people were doing in this regard: Crafty and
>then some. He also posted a 10-0 win from DB against top commercials.
>Skepticism, if not downright disbelieve, was the normal reaction and from there
>it came the 100:1 challenge from Rebel 8 and then Hiarcs 6. Crafty lost the
>first game and it wasn’t better in the second, in spite of the odds. But today’s
>Crafty is not that old Crafty, so imagine this 16.4 running on a 1000 times
>faster machine, like DB did: who would doubt a 10-0 against the best
>commercials?

I would doubt 10-0
I think that you cannot be sure about 10-0 even if you played the same program
against itself(1000 times faster) because the 1000 times faster can do a draw or
even lose because of a poor opening choice or because of bad luck(It can
calculate something that both sides believes that is winning and is realy
losing)

Uri





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