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Subject: Re: So why *does* Fritz beat Crafty?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 11:12:26 03/28/99

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On March 28, 1999 at 13:48:02, blass uri wrote:

>Crafty does not have all the modern techniques of chess programming.
>
>Crafty does not use the half ply search for some important moves like Junior
>
>Fritz is using selective search and probably does some everage between the
>selective search score and the brute force score.
>
>Crafty does not do this.
>
>It is not a surprise that Top programs are better than crafty because the source
>code of crafty is free and can help other programmers when the source code of
>top programs is not free.

I think that it is fair, when judging a program, to consider, in addition to raw
chess strength, how much the author has done to assist others to improve their
own programs, and clearly Bob Hyatt is at the top of that particular list.

bruce



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