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Subject: Re: Question about Chrilly's chess code background

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:46:21 06/27/05

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On June 27, 2005 at 22:22:31, Robin Smith wrote:

>On June 27, 2005 at 02:54:38, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2005 at 21:29:30, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I assume Chrilly wrote the Code for the Nimzo program.
>>>If this is true then what were his results from year to year when working with
>>>chess code against his competitors, Ed, Robert, etc...
>>>Was Chrilly winning some of the time, most of the time?
>>>How many times was Nimzo world champion?
>>>Is Chrilly an IM, GM..?
>>
>>Chrilly is a weak chess player.
>
>True; but then most strong chess programmers are weak chess players.
>
>>He has also no respect for human GMs at all.
>
>Then why is a human GM on the Hydra team? What support can you give for this
>claim?
>
>>>How come all of a sudden this Chrilly has a program that some say beats
>>>shredder, all of the worlds top programmers, and now can beat the number 7 super
>>>GM in the world.
>>
>>It´s very easy. Start a match between Fruit 2.1 on a 2 GHz against Shredder 9 on
>>200 Mhz. Shredder wouldn´t have a chance.
>>
>>This Hardware will always produce very strong chess in open positions.
>
>Yes. It seems to do pretty well in semi-open positions as well. Maybe time will
>tell about closed positions (if Hydra ever allows them).
>
>>Crafty on that Hardware would smash Adams as well.
>
>Adams would have won all 6 games by forfeit, Crafty won't run on that hardware.
>:-)
>
>>Chrilly is IMO a worse chess programmer than SMK or Amir Ban or Frans Morsch.
>
>SMK, Amir Ban, and Frans Morsch (and others) are excellent programmers. However
>Chrilly has produced the strongest chess playing entity ever created, so your
>strong statement needs strong proof.

I think that the claim that chrilly has produced the strongest chess playing
identity was not proved.

Uri



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