Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:50:42 10/28/99
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On October 28, 1999 at 14:26:57, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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 You are forgetting that the commercial programs do not publish their 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Greetings Alex And we _know_ that nobody uses those outdated ideas in Crafty, right? :) IE book learning, some of the evaluation terms... etc. I have been really hesitant to release the new pawn majority code because no one else is doing this that I can recognize, at least not doing it effectively. The minute 17.0 hits the street, others will be doing it soon. Good or bad? A one-way flow of information? Is it really worth it?
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