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Subject: Re: Snobbery on ICC servers I cannot get a Game !

Author: Mark Young

Date: 18:17:40 08/26/99

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On August 26, 1999 at 20:20:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...


Ed's 2010 matches are in a whole other class of time controls:). I don't test
anything over 6 min a move. I don't want to wait to the year 2010 for the data!



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