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Subject: Re: +1200 GM won games at Anticomputer Chess website now.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:13:39 08/16/99

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On August 16, 1999 at 14:57:44, Rafael Vasquez wrote:

>On August 16, 1999 at 13:55:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>The only thing I have seen "guarapuava" try on ICC is the trojan horse attack.
>>Nothing else looks particularly interesting or effective.  I haven't seen
>>anything else from him, and now that most every crafty has him 'tagged' he is
>>losing 100 games for every game he draws.  I don't call that an 'effective
>>strategy against computers'.
>>
>>IMHO of course...
>
>Bob, Nowadays is normal that we have to play thousands of games in order to have
>some games for a database. Imagine the lots of game I had to filter. But
>Guarapuava is stuborn enough to have almost 100 won games.You have to recognize
>that a player has to be STRONG to have more than 70 won games against Crafty in
>1999. I hope more players will let know their "single method" to us. That way in
>the end we will have an arsenal.

70 is not 'hard'... because he plays a _lot_ of different crafty clones on ICC.
However, I think he is 'done' as news spreads fast.  :)




>Due to the philosofy of the website I am not posting the hundreds of thousands
>games won by Crafty.


that was my point of course...  that once a crafty operator 'catches on',
Guarapuava is finished with that one...




>
>My Very Best Regards to you Bob,(I admire you're work and you as a person)
>
>Rafael Vasquez



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