Author: Zappa
Date: 07:39:57 07/09/05
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On July 09, 2005 at 10:30:05, Matthew Hull wrote: >On July 09, 2005 at 10:21:36, Zappa wrote: > >>How proud you must be. Every game you lose except when you close the position, >>shuffle your pieces and try to win on time. Imagine the number of people who >>would want to watch that. I'm thinking . . . 0? > > >He tried that against Crafty and could not succeed. Why then should he be able >to succeed against "stronger" opposition? I think it is a valid issue that many >strong programs are "breakable" in this way. I would think programmers would >want to know how their creations can be busted, especially if amateurs can do it >so easily. > >Who should be derided here? Zappa *never* loses on time here. There are 3 possibilities: a) the guy misconfigured the timecontrol b) Playchess doesn't account for lag correctly c) Zappa sets its priority low when it starts up so that the machine is more responsive. However this also leads to a lot of losses when people run tons of other stuff on the machine (or have viruses and spyware, like 95% of windows machines) and it gets 3 knps. As for Crafty, Zappa and Crafty shall meet at the WCCC2005 for the title of best American program. I wish Bob the best of luck, but I plan on winning that one :) anthony
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