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Subject: Re: Crafty vs Commercials

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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