Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:03:18 10/28/99
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On October 28, 1999 at 14:40:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 28, 1999 at 09:30:41, Amir Ban wrote: >>The argument here is not crafty's rating but by how much crafties gain by >>playing against humans only. >> >>Amir > > >It seems to be more than that. Because I play on a daily basis zarkovx, >spendrups (nimzo at present I think), fritz (via cstal2 interface) and now >Ferret is back on and has played at least 20 games over the last 24 hours (I >have not studied them as I really don't have the energy to look at what is >going on at present). > >So "crafty" isn't _only_ playing humans. That is a false assumption. And has >been forever. I can't ever think of a period of time where it didn't get much >action against other programs, except during the annual wmccc events where >almost everybody is in one place and ICC is not important for a week or so. > >Anybody can find crafty's history of playing against computers on ICC, just log >on, do an =computer, and then "search crafty <opponent>" where <opponent> is in >the computer list. You can see when they played, how many games they played in >a row, and how often they played. > >You know, it is _much_ more reasonable to make statements _after_ investigating, >rather than just making statements. That way the statements are never wrong. > >just a 'policy' suggestion... Before Amir flames you, he said "crafties", not "Crafty". bruce
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