Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 00:55:55 12/16/99
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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 As Dr. Hyatt mentions, there are MANY commercial programs running on the ICC...Fritzx, Bounty Hunter, Varguz, Quanny, the Diep family, ban, netsurfer, etc... which all do ok, BUT, how many of them maintain a 3000+ rating on there? Just Junior running under the account ban...and low and behold it is a DUAL P2/350.....
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