Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 13:17:19 09/27/99
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I think perhaps you misunderstood the author. What I think he was saying (and I could be wrong) is that Crafty is too strong (in part because of the hardware) to judge small, incremental increases in program strength. He is not saying that Crafty doesn't deserve the rating it has; rather that it would be easier to develop the program if Bob had it on slow hardware, so he could see the result of his incremental improvements. Since Crafty is so overwhelmingly strong at blitz, a change that Bob makes in it that increases it's real playing strength by 10-20 points gets lost in the fact that it outrates all of it's opponents by hundreds of points. If Crafty was run on lesser hardware, and consequently earned a rating of "only" 2600, then the changes Bob made would be more apparent in it's rating. Interesting perspective. Chris
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