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Subject: Re: Humans beating computers

Author: Chessfun

Date: 05:22:05 12/10/99

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On December 10, 1999 at 03:23:19, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On December 10, 1999 at 02:04:19, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>This is a similar subject to I already posted.
>>
>>Shutka at fics record against Chesspartner:
>>After 3 more wins the last 24 hours.
>>
>>Record for shutka vs. chesspartner:
>>                            wins     losses     draws
>>                rated         60         29         0
>>              unrated          0          0         0
>>
>>Statistics for chesspartner(C)
>>          rating     RD      win    loss    draw   total   best
>>Blitz      2185     24.7    1682     173     118    1973   2411 (23-Nov-99)
>>Standard   2372     59.6      36      14      15      65   2494 (20-Nov-99)
>>Lightning  2178     42.5     134      33       4     171   2192 (03-Dec-99)
>>Wild       ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>Bughouse   ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>Crazyhouse ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>Suicide    ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>
>>
>>Timeseal   : On
>>
>> 1: ChessPartner 4.21, Engine: Chesstiger 12.0e
>> 2: Pentium 233 , 128 MB , Windows 2000 RC2
>> 3: This is the final release, hangs should have been fixed now.
>> 4: If it still hangs, and it is not a communication failure, please let me
>>know.
>> 5: http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/
>> 6: The machine the program runs on is my mailserver/domain controller,
>> 7: and the program is set to run at idle priority. Thus if you
>> 8: win,you just may have been lucky :)
>>
>>
>>
>>Record for shutka vs. scrappy:
>>                            wins     losses     draws
>>                rated          0         62         3
>>              unrated          0          0         0
>>
>>Statistics for scrappy(C)
>>          rating     RD      win    loss    draw   total   best
>>Blitz      2468     32.3     526     187     159     872   2538 (24-Nov-99)
>>Standard   2385     45.2     142      42      42     226   2460 (01-Sep-99)
>>Lightning  2585     48.6     131      40      23     194   2725 (23-Nov-99)
>>Wild       2375     50.3      43      42       3      88   2390 (18-Nov-99)
>>Bughouse   ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>Crazyhouse ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>Suicide    ----    350.0       0       0       0       0
>>
>>
>>Timeseal   : On
>>
>> 1: Crafty v17.5 (4 cpus)
>> 2: ALR quad P6/200, 256mb + some 5 piece endings
>> 3: now run by hyatt.  please message him with questions, etc.
>> 4: finger crafty for details on obtaining source and executables
>> 5: enormous (1.5M game) opening book
>> 6: scrappy is about 1/2 as fast as "crafty"
>> 7: _absolutely_ no crafty clones.  using a crafty
>> 8: clone will result in a lifetime +noplay
>> 9: computer operators:  4 blitz or 2 standard games
>>10: in a row, max, or risk +noplay
>>
>>
>>It would appear some type of anti-human setting needs to be turned on in
>>chesspartner this guy is killing it, he has over one third of it's losses
>>attributable to him alone. Also it is clear that whatever crafty has to prevent
>>this works.
>>
>>This post is mainly for all the people that believe to beat a computer you must
>>be using another computer.
>>Thanks.
>
>
>I have just asked Lex to turn "anti-human" mode ON in the Rebel-Tiger engine. I
>think it will make a difference.

Good, I will post games as soon as he plays it again.
Thanks
>
>If you want to make your point even heavier, maybe I can connect my 386sx20MHz
>to the ChessPartner account.

>You'll see more humans beating a computer.
>
>What we are trying to check in our experiment is the quality of the connection
>to the Internet Chess Servers, not the strength of the program.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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