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Subject: Re: On the Voyager Issue, briefly -- to Bob Hyatt

Author: James Robertson

Date: 13:41:01 02/17/99

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On February 17, 1999 at 16:24:45, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On February 17, 1999 at 13:50:33, Mika wrote:
>
>>It's not interesting to me that Voyager beats Crafty on equal hardware. Crafty
>>is tuned against human players. To what extent is Voyager just Crafty tuned
>>against itself?
>
>The claim is made that it has won EVERY match against Crafties on equal hardware
>- I don't think it's correct.  Looking at the stats for 'TheMagusX' (The >Voyager
>account) on FICS, it has non-winning records against several Crafties that play
>on equal or slower(!) hardware, and it has losing records against TCB and Comet
>accounts.
>
>Jeremiah

Hmmm. This does not match at all the results on Djordje Vidanovic's page.
Perhaps Voyager's real strength lies in sly tricks (memory and cpu allocation,
maybe!) it does to whatever program it is playing against on the same computer?
:)

James



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