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Subject: Crafty rating is 400 points too high?

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 08:52:59 09/27/99


It seems that crafty's rating on ICC is 400 points too high and I don't mean
inflated. The reason I think this is I know I learn more from the games I lose
than I do from the games I win. It seems to me that for development purposes,
slower hardware would expose improvable inefficiencies in the program. With the
current hardware (4x400 Xeon), Crafty looks like a genius in every game due to
the speed of the hardware. If each of the CPU's were running at say 100mhz, then
improvements to the program could occur at more rapid pace, since problems with
the eval or whatever would be more noticeable (more losses=more opportunity to
improve). Not that Bob has done "too badly", but maybe he can do better? Just a
thought.



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