Author: James T. Walker
Date: 19:32:29 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 18:07:32, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On April 06, 2000 at 15:51:44, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On April 06, 2000 at 10:59:33, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>I have started a series of matches using the Crafty 17.07 of Chessbase site vs >>>the commercial programs 1. Fritz 6 2. Junior 6 Chess Tiger 12.0e 3. Hiarcs >>>7.32. The commercial programs will be running on a PII-333 and Crafty is >>>running on a K6-3-450. All programs will be given 64 Meg for hash tables. All >>>will be using their own book except for Crafty which I gave the General.ctg book >>>of Fritz 5.32. Following is the first 6 games Crafty 17.07 vs Fritz 6. All >>>time controls will be 40/2 + 20/1 + G/30. > ><SNIP> > >>Since there is a big difference in hardware and I see that you are pitting for >>example Fritz 6 against Crafty 17.07 a least twice, I strongly recommend you to >>switch computer and allow fritz 6 and Junior 6 to use the AMD K6 III 450 Mhz, >>and crafty 17.07 to use the Pentium 333, then the comparison is considered >>equal. > >There is not a big advantage in hardware. For Crafty, a K62-450 runs almost at >the same speed as a PII-333. If you switched hardware, Crafty would run at the >same speed, but Fritz/Junior/etc. would have the hardware advantage. Just for your information, I'm running Crafty on a K6-3-450 and Crafty is almost 50% faster than on the PII-333. That still is only about 40 ELO points max. Jim Walker
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