Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 20:14:08 09/16/99
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On September 16, 1999 at 09:56:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>There are two issues. 1 in 100 is pretty close to zero and probably within
>acceptable bounds. the main issue is 'crafty' on ICC. Note that it runs 24
>hours a day, 7 days a week. But it doesn't take much to figure out that I do
>lots of other things on this machine, so crafty runs at a "nice 20" level. If
>you play it during the day, you are _guaranteed_ to play at least one game where
>it hardly searches at all for several consecutive moves, such as when I am
>making a new linux kernel, or compiling gcc, or working on various other
>programs I fiddle with all the time, including crafty itself. It is very likely
>that out of 30 games in one day, one or two will be like playing crafty on an
>old 8086, nodes-per-second wise, because of this.
>
>That is why I usually encourage anyone to specifically ask to play a match so
>that I can set things up where this doesn't happen, and you get to play the
>'real' crafty without it getting crushed when another compile is fired off...
>
>I save _all_ pgn games from both crafty and scrappy... what was your handle
>when you played and I'll see if I can scrape up the pgn for the losses to see
>what might have gone wrong, if anything...
My ICC handle is rabid. Btw the statistics I gave for my play vrs
crafty were wrong. I used the statistics command in cblight. I don't what the
heck this command is doing but it is not generating correct statistics. Maybe
it is being confused by players with similar names to crafty such as
craftycrafty. (The search command on ICC definitely seems to be confused by
similar names. If I do "search crafty rabid" I get the correct result but if I
do "search rabid crafty" some craftycrafty games are included.) It appears I
actually had 3 wins and 3 draws in about 40 games. Most of these games were in
1998.
James B. Shearer
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