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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.6 confuses me!

Author: James Robertson

Date: 19:47:20 04/22/99

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On April 22, 1999 at 13:22:56, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On April 22, 1999 at 11:54:35, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On April 22, 1999 at 07:10:18, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Actually I have only P90 in home and that's too slow for Crafty - it always
>>>loses after some tactical mistakes. Probably Crafty need much faster PC to
>>>stand against Fritz...
>>
>>That is probably true... the faster the PC, the better Crafty plays. Remember,
>>Bob Hyatt is testing Crafty on a quad Xenon with some tremendous MHz, so it is
>>tuned for that speed. Try a few longer games (maybe 1 hour!?) and see who
>>wins....
>Crafty does very well even at extremely long time controls.  Look at past KKUP
>results and you will see that this is clearly so.  In the last KKUP, it held its
>own with the top commercial programs.  If anything, crafty does *better* at long
>time controls than short ones.

Isn't that my point?

>
>"The faster the PC the better it plays" is true for each and every chess
>program.

Caught my bad wording. :)

James

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