Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 14:39:04 08/20/05
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>CRAFTY is the winner because it is the only program that is open to challenges >online over the years and other programmers could even study its source code. You do know that Fruit is open scource right? >If >CRAFTY THEN wins so many games in the tournament it's the legal winner, because >it's strong out of itself. Other programs are only strong through their tuning >on CRAFTY. I have a lot of respect for Bob and Crafty is still an old favorite, but Fruit without a decent opening book, inferior hardware and no egtb support, also Zappa who is so close to winning this event with a 100% score (and with a proper book line against Fute it would have). These two programs are the big winners and deservedly so. I get your point about Crafty though, but compared to #1 and 2 in this event it pales IMO (i have a feeling Bob will agree here). >Programs like JUNIOR, SJENG, DIEP etc. are a deep deception for CC as such. >These programs are, although their programmers are most experienced in CC AND >could tune on CRAFTY, in itself weak and a deception. This i strongly disagree with, "deception" would mean that they purposely decided to decieve us the public, which is if not cartoonish, then an either foolish or a careless thought to even imagine that to be the case. >The normally strongest program SHREDDER paid its tribute to its programmer's >hyperactivity by participating in Mainz so shortly before the Wch. Sometimes we forget that the programmers of super strong engines will use these events to try out new stuff, sometimes it really pays off and sometimes it don't, i am not saying it this _is_ the case here, but it might be... >Kudos to Bob Hyatt and his lifelong performance. Yes regardless of where Crafty ends up in the table, Bob deserves a lot of Kudos for his great work, cheers Bob.
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