Lusakan wrote:Come on people, the anwer is simple:
Crafty on principle advances exclusively on original ideas and gets zero ideas from outside. It never experienced the fruit revolution.
xcomponent wrote:I don't think that pure elo strength is relevant for that matter. Crafty (and cray blitz as well) is one of the ultimate chess programming textbooks!
This is the main reason a lot of ideas from Bob and his team to be used in so many engines. Besides, speaking about Crafty, we are not just talking about a chess engine. This is a complete CHESS PROGRAM, which is something completely different from just another analyzing module. So, considering Crafty's and Bob's team ROLE in chess programming in general, I don't really think that neither speed, nor ELO strength matters.
zullil wrote:Why has Crafty been "several 100 elo behind the best for years?" Thanks for the replies.
In short, your question is one asked after programming geniuses poured lifetimes of effort into the field, most of the information has since become shared, and you have the gumption to pose your question the way you do?
Hey, Christopher Columbus, how come you can't outrun the Nuclear Submarine?
Dear Ed,
If you read each of my posts, I hope you will see that I was trying to understand, not trying to knock anyone. In the question you quoted above, the phrase "several 100 elo behind the best for years" is in quotes. That's because the phrase isn't mine. It's from the first reply to my original post. I chose to borrow it in the hope that its author might offer his thoughts on reasons behind that ELO gap.
I'm sorry my actual question was misunderstood. Maybe it was silly to begin with. That said, I really don't think it was comparable, in either content or spirit, to "Hey, Christopher Columbus, how come you can't outrun the Nuclear Submarine?"
