Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:03:34 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 22:32:29, James T. Walker wrote: >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 K6 3 is significantly better than the K6 2...
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