Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 17:12:37 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 20:08:21, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 18:01:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 14, 2005 at 17:00:02, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >> >>>On August 14, 2005 at 16:47:43, Darrel Briley wrote: >>> >>>>On August 14, 2005 at 15:22:43, Graham Banks wrote: >>>> >>>>>Best wishes for the remaining games. It would be really good for this to be the >>>>>best Crafty ever! Fingers and toes crossed! >>>>> >>>>>Graham. >>>> >>>>1.5 with two blacks vs. Shredder and Junior. Impressive indeed. >>>>Congratulations Bob! >>>> >>>> DB >>> >>>As Bob has pointed out earlier this is pure luck. >>>Crafty has serios tactical weaknesses as all the >>>computer chess specialists know. Crafty is not even commercial, >>>so how can this be explainded in any other way, but luck? >>>Perhaps Bob has found a very old version and is running this now, 6.4? >>> >>>Anyway congratulations and >>>Kind regards >>>Bernhard >> >> >>I'd bet that those "serious tactical weaknesses" are not to be found on this >>hardware, at least until someone is searching far faster than I am... > >Tactical weaknesses can be found also in software. > >> >>Crafty's "serious tactical weaknesses" are more urban legend than fact... > >Comparing Crafty with fruit Crafty does not do checks in the first ply of the >qsearch when fruit does it and Crafty does not use history based pruning when >fruit does it. > >I think that these are relative weaknesses and using the ideas of fruit may help >Crafty to be better in tactics. Those are not "ideas of fruit". Both are mentioned in the 1977 computer chess book written by KAISSA authors. Thanks, Eugene >Hardware is important to see deeper but there are also other factors. > >Uri
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