Too many crafty posts!

[James Constance]

Sound familiar?

[gerold]

Sound familiar?

Another one.

[Sylwy]

Sound familiar?

Crafty is a very interesting engine. A lot of features ! And the new Crafty is also a strong engine !

Silvian

[Guetti]

Crafty is not commercial and not a clone of a commercial product, so no damage is done.

[Dann Corbit]

Sound familiar?

Sure, it reminds me of the old days when people would get bent out of shape over ChessMaster personality posts.

My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as too many posts on a topical subject. When people are foaming at the mouth over Rybka or Crafty or Junior or Naum or Sjeng or whatever, I think it is fantastic. It means that people are getting a great deal of enjoyment out of it and have passion for the subject. If the subect is not interesting to people, then we won't have lots of posts on that topic.

So if you are not interested in a subect, do what I do. Skip over that post and read the next one that looks interesting.

[kranium]

Sound familiar?

Sure, it reminds me of the old days when people would get bent out of shape over ChessMaster personality posts.

My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as too many posts on a topical subject. When people are foaming at the mouth over Rybka or Crafty or Junior or Naum or Sjeng or whatever, I think it is fantastic. It means that people are getting a great deal of enjoyment out of it and have passion for the subject. If the subect is not interesting to people, then we won't have lots of posts on that topic.

So if you are not interested in a subect, do what I do. Skip over that post and read the next one that looks interesting.

a version a day keeps the doctor away...

[bob]

Sound familiar?

Sure, it reminds me of the old days when people would get bent out of shape over ChessMaster personality posts.

My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as too many posts on a topical subject. When people are foaming at the mouth over Rybka or Crafty or Junior or Naum or Sjeng or whatever, I think it is fantastic. It means that people are getting a great deal of enjoyment out of it and have passion for the subject. If the subect is not interesting to people, then we won't have lots of posts on that topic.

So if you are not interested in a subect, do what I do. Skip over that post and read the next one that looks interesting.

a version a day keeps the doctor away...

Or makes you pull your hair out. But I think we are about past that stage. The threads seem to be working for everyone, the windows and linux memory leaks (two different issues completely) are history, and it now appears to compile cleanly for everyone so far as I know... Back to a more sedate release schedule.

I might use a "+20 Elo" window from here on, except for bugs. So that once we gain +20 elo over the last 22.n version, we release 22.n+1. That at least gives a target and it usually takes a couple of weeks (at a minimum) to produce that kind of improvement...

[Dann Corbit]

Sound familiar?

Sure, it reminds me of the old days when people would get bent out of shape over ChessMaster personality posts.

My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as too many posts on a topical subject. When people are foaming at the mouth over Rybka or Crafty or Junior or Naum or Sjeng or whatever, I think it is fantastic. It means that people are getting a great deal of enjoyment out of it and have passion for the subject. If the subect is not interesting to people, then we won't have lots of posts on that topic.

So if you are not interested in a subect, do what I do. Skip over that post and read the next one that looks interesting.

a version a day keeps the doctor away...

Or makes you pull your hair out. But I think we are about past that stage. The threads seem to be working for everyone, the windows and linux memory leaks (two different issues completely) are history, and it now appears to compile cleanly for everyone so far as I know... Back to a more sedate release schedule.

I might use a "+20 Elo" window from here on, except for bugs. So that once we gain +20 elo over the last 22.n version, we release 22.n+1. That at least gives a target and it usually takes a couple of weeks (at a minimum) to produce that kind of improvement...

I really like your new testing methodology. I think it will bring you great success to measure everything so carefully.

[mhull]

Sound familiar?

Sure, it reminds me of the old days when people would get bent out of shape over ChessMaster personality posts.

My personal opinion is that there is no such thing as too many posts on a topical subject. When people are foaming at the mouth over Rybka or Crafty or Junior or Naum or Sjeng or whatever, I think it is fantastic. It means that people are getting a great deal of enjoyment out of it and have passion for the subject. If the subect is not interesting to people, then we won't have lots of posts on that topic.

So if you are not interested in a subect, do what I do. Skip over that post and read the next one that looks interesting.

a version a day keeps the doctor away...

Or makes you pull your hair out. But I think we are about past that stage. The threads seem to be working for everyone, the windows and linux memory leaks (two different issues completely) are history, and it now appears to compile cleanly for everyone so far as I know... Back to a more sedate release schedule.

I might use a "+20 Elo" window from here on, except for bugs. So that once we gain +20 elo over the last 22.n version, we release 22.n+1. That at least gives a target and it usually takes a couple of weeks (at a minimum) to produce that kind of improvement...

Are you holding back any secret versions pending the next CCT or other big tournament?

[glorfindel]

Bugs like memory leaks should be fixed as soon as possible, certainly. But perhaps you should name bugfix versions differently, because for example there is a big difference between 22.1 and 22.2, but small differences between the more recent versions. Maybe they would be better named 22.2, 22.2b, 22.2c etc, or 22.2, 22.22, 22.23 etc, or something else. So that users would have a better estimation of how different the versions are and how likely it is that their playing strength is also different.
Just my opinion, of course. Besides, on the other hand, maybe this is not so important.