Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:20:36 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 17:24:37, Mark Young wrote: >On August 26, 1999 at 14:36:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 26, 1999 at 13:00:54, odell hall wrote: >> >>>On August 26, 1999 at 10:42:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On August 26, 1999 at 01:57:24, odell hall wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 26, 1999 at 00:51:22, Joakim Nilsson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>I agree with you.Every (C) has some form of crazy formula that makes it >>>>>>impossible to play if your manually operated :-( >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I think many of the crafty clones are afraid of manually operated computers, >>>>>because they know that most likely they will get fritz5, or chessmaster 6000 or >>>>>one of the other strong commerical program, which ofcourse will damage their >>>>>"superinflated ratings" (in the words of Data on icc) >>>> >>>> >>>>Then I wonder why "crafty" will play 60 60 games vs such programs? >>> >>> >>> >>> I was not speaking about Crafty, but "some" of the Crafty clones, Crafty is >>>pretty much protected because it runs on a Monster of a machine, not to many >>>people have such hardware, but I tell you what , Reduce crafty down to a pent >>>400 and I will beat it all day long. >> >> >>There are plenty of PII/400's on ICC. And I don't doubt that you can beat it >>some... but if you mean you can beat it all day without losing, I hope you don't >>wager any money on such an outcome... > > >As always in computer chess, what was true yesterday is not always true today. I >find the latest versions of crafty very strong playing the top commercial >program even on equal hardware. At fast time controls I am now finding Crafty as >good or better then some of the top commercail programs. I do notice a fall off >for crafty as time controls get longer when playing the top programs. Only >guessing but this may be due to the fact that you test more and tune more for >play at fast time controls??! Actually no... I have been paying a lot more attention to long games the last year, and feel that crafty's blitz play has dropped off a bit as a result. But Ed's "2010" matches seem to suggest the opposite of what you are seeing, ie that as the time controls get _very_ long, Crafty is doing exceptionally well... However, I still have more than enough bugs left to break anything, so who knows, overall. :) But I am not paying a lot of attention to blitz, unless I happen to notice a 'trend' of sorts...
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