Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:05:18 09/27/99
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On September 27, 1999 at 16:17:19, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >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 Hmm, maybe, but I'll bet that one of the reasons Bob gets so much GM action is because his machine is cranked up. Dave
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