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Subject: Re: A crippled TIGER is still much better than a full strength CRAFTY :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:26:20 10/31/99

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On October 31, 1999 at 14:37:26, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On October 31, 1999 at 14:06:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>There was also a very bad 'stretch' during that period from my perspective.  I
>>added a lot of new code, then got sidetracked... Crafty dropped from about 3200
>>to 2850 before I had time to correct things.  It was doing ok vs humans for
>>the most part, but lost nearly every game vs computers...
>>
>>It has done much better over the past month, I got +9 -4 if I counted right
>>over the last 2 weeks.  The two weeks prior to that had lots of debugging for
>>the new majority stuff...
>>
>>Of course, as I said, when Crafty plays well, he could have bugs, so I don't
>>put a lot of faith in those results...  I've not been terribly unhappy about
>>Crafty, except for the last week+ where I made a few final changes to the eval
>>and then didn't feel up to studying the results, other than to note it was not
>>doing real well.
>
>I know of 8 games between mine and ban recently and I've only gotten 2.5.
>Beyond a doubt it is very strong.
>
>bruce


Never said it wasn't.  I know of a recent 6 game match between crafty and ferret
and I got 2 draws, period.  Ferret is strong too.  Stronger IMHO.



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