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Subject: Re: Crafty and single-computer winboard matches

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 22:59:48 10/05/99

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On October 05, 1999 at 20:26:59, Peter Kappler wrote:

>Bob,
>
>This is really a shame, because Crafty is the best known of all the winboard
>engines, and is often used as *the* standard for assessing the strength of other
>programs.  Anytime I hear that "program X" is a really strong amateur engine, my
>first thought is "well, lets just see how it stacks up against Crafty".
>
>As much as possible, I think you should try to address some of these
>single-computer winboard issues - especially the no-ponder time management
>problem, which just doesn't seem that difficult.  Problems that can't be solved
>should at least be quantified, performance-wise, and this information could be
>published.  As Christopher said in his previous post - if the net effect is 5 or
>10 ELO points, who really cares?  On the other hand, if you can prove that for
>Crafty the difference is 50 or 75 ELO points, then at least people will take
>this into account when interpreting results.
>
>--Peter

I am willing to play 100 40/40 auto232 games.

PC-1: Rebel Century PB=ON
PC-2: Rebel Century PB=OFF

Indentical hardware of course.

My bet...

Expected match score: 70-30

Now how many ELO is that when that score pops up?

Ed



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