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Subject: Re: Crafty 17.04 running the gauntlet, Rd. 1-4

Author: paul bedrey

Date: 12:38:10 12/13/99

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On December 13, 1999 at 13:25:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 13, 1999 at 11:28:00, James Robertson wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 1999 at 08:08:38, CLiebert wrote:
>>
>>>Crafty 17.04 running the gauntlet
>>>
>
>>Crafty 17.4 is, at least from my preliminary results _way_ stronger than 17.3.
>>Insomniac was scoring close to 50% agianst 17.3, and the latest result was 0%
>>against 17.4. :(
>>
>>James
>
>
>Remember that I posted one of the bugs.  The score for a pawn on the 7th rank
>was negative, rather than positive.  It would therefore never advance to the
>7th, unless it could see it could also go to the 8th and promote.  And if you
>got one on the 7th, it would be _very_ happy, until it finally saw that you
>could promote it, which was often too late.  Even blockading the pawn on the
>7th was very bad because of this.
>
>Totally nuts...  and it had a horrific effect on performance...

Funny but Crafty 17.3 on my machine has yet to lose a 16 game match to any of
the other Winboard engines. Bob, is Crafty tested at any specific time control?
I'm running at 40 moves in 20'. I'll download 17.4 and run a match against 17.3
Also do you think the Nunn test is a good indicator of engine strength? If not
what is?




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