Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 13:58:57 07/10/05
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On July 09, 2005 at 10:39:57, Zappa wrote: >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 Pablo has been able to force a time loss to all the major commercial engines at one time or another. Unless you have some breakthrough in Zappa for such positions, it should happen to Zappa as well -- even if you're operating it. Play him and see. -elc.
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