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Subject: Re: Crafty rating on ICC

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 11:26:57 10/28/99

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On October 27, 1999 at 15:22:29, Alexander Kure wrote:

>On October 27, 1999 at 11:55:49, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>
>>You noplayed the two highest rated blitz computers around (Ban & Varguz). The
>>others are either hundreds of points lower or don't come any longer.
>>
>
>As I run Varguz on my second compi I think I can add something:
>
>I do not care if Crafty is noplaying Varguz. I do not have a noplaylist, cause I
>simply do not care. I think Crafty is an amateur program that could learn a lot
>from playing the commercials.
>Let me put it this way: Compared to the strong commercial programs like Junior,
>Fritz, Hiarcs and Nimzo Crafty is much weaker and needs some improvements to be
>a match for the above programs on equal hardware.

Be fair. You are forgetting that the commercial programs do not publish their
source code. Sure they are stronger, they have the crafty source code to look
at. Due to this, one might say that crafty defines the dividing line between the
top programs and the also rans. If your program is not at least as good as
crafty, then it is not a top program. No matter how much Hyatt improves his
program, he will never be able to best the top programs (for very long anyway),
since he gives away all his ideas.

>
>Greetings Alex



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