Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:28:33 12/15/99
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On December 14, 1999 at 23:55:57, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 14, 1999 at 16:04:46, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>What confuses me about your reply to Dr. Hyatt is that idea you seem have >>latched on to that Crafty can not do well on a single processor machine. >>Counterplay on the ICC, which is my bot had the following score running Crafty >>version 12 up to 16.19: >> >>12220 wins 1024 losses and 883 draws for an avg rating best rating of 2864. >>Counterplay maintained a 2900+ rating for quite awhile, DESPITE being handicaped >>by a mere K6-2 300 SINGLE processor. And to clairify this, I had no qualms >>about playing various commercial programs that lurked around the ICC. >> >>On a differnt note, Crafty also does quite well against Fritz, even handicapped >>by Fritz's expensive system overhead and lack of pondering etc. >> >>Jason > > >There have been many private tournaments including Crafty and strong commercial >programs, and results have been published here and in other places. > >So far, Crafty has never done well in those tournaments. > >Why don't you play a lot yourself to be sure? > >Are the strong commercial programs playing on ICC? Can you compare ICC ratings? > >I don't deny Crafty has good results on ICC, but if no commercial programmer >tries to have a high ranking on ICC, you cannot compare. > >So the only thing you can do is let Crafty play directly against strong programs >and see what happens. > >For example you can see some tournament results, some are including Crafty, at >Shep's site: > > http://come.to/sccs > >The most recent tournament including Crafty (v16.6) has been played in May 99 >(Tournament XIX). Crafty finished at the lowest ranking. > >See also Tournament XVI. And also Tournament XV. And also Tournament XIII. > > > > Christophe My daily ICC opponents are (1) 4 games vs Varguz (generally 4 games, played two at a sitting, with varguz=latest nimzo, automated). (2) chess tiger 12 (3 games this morning). (3) Genius 6 (12 games a day usually, via bountyhunter). (4) others including CM, fritz 6, Hiarcs (lonnie) and so forth. My rating isn't suffering from this. Most are running on PIII/500+ machines, vs my quad xeon 400. You can log on to ICC at any time and use the 'search' command to see how I am doing vs "rebeltiger", "varguz", "lonnie", "ghostn" (567 PIII) or a host of other computer programs. However I am more interested in opponents like "Dlugy", "Kotronias" and the other GM/IM players. They are _much_ more challenging opponents from a computer perspective. They "change".
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