Author: Igor Syry
Date: 09:43:58 09/17/99
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On September 17, 1999 at 00:10:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On September 16, 1999 at 23:14:08, James B. Shearer wrote: > >>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 > > >ah hell... that is a problem everywhere... ICC can't get it right either as >the 'search' command will match all players that have the same starting chars >for the handle. IE search crafty will get games by crafty, craftycrafty, and >anybody else that starts with crafty. To avoid expanded search try putting a (!) at the end of the search expression, for ex: search crafty! rabit Igor > >I did write a pgn parser that will suck in pgn games, grab the names and >results, and summarize the entire file, player by player. Since ICC/chess.net/ >fics only emails me crafty/scrappy games, I have a chance of getting good data. >To use ICC's search you have to watch what you search for. > >But in any case, if you'd like to play a series of games, most any time control, >rated or unrated, let me know. 1998 was either pentium pro, or if the games >were fairly late in 1998, quad pentium pro. It is quite a lot faster now, as >well as playing better and more anti-drawish than back then. > >It would be fun to see whether you can lock things up, even if you make a >mistake and lose... I'm working on that...
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