Author: James T. Walker
Date: 05:03:41 04/10/00
Go up one level in this thread
On April 10, 2000 at 03:24:17, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >On April 10, 2000 at 01:48:40, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>Thanks for SSDF! Crafty's rating is only 2 points from Hiarcs7.32! Wow. And >>note, that with Celeron PC Crafty runs relatively 30% faster. >> >>Jouni > >The SSDF can not tell us how good Crafty really is. >They may only give us a lower bound for the strength of Crafty against >computers. > >My Crafty doesn't use the chessbase interface. >My Crafty uses the Nalimov egtbs - without the SSDF space limitations. >My Crafty runs on two processors. > >But I use Crafty now for several years, so I don't need anybody to tell me >how strong Crafty really is. > >Someone in the past stated that commercial programs are at least 100 rating >points stronger than Crafty, so now we may ask: >Where are the commercials??? ************************************************** What am I missing?? 1 Fritz 6.0 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2721 39 -37 368 67% 2594 8 Crafty 17.07/CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2624 46 -44 251 62% 2541 ----- 97 Points Most of the statements about Crafty being below the commercials referred to Crafty 15.XX/16.XX a year ago when Fritz 5.32 and Junior 5 and Hiarcs 7.32 were new. I have watched Crafty get better each month while the commercials only come out once a year. The new Hiarcs should be due in a few months. I was about to test Crafty myself (At 40/2) because of the noticed improvement over the past year untill I was told that SSDF was coming out with the a new list including Crafty. Crafty is a great program but when Fritz 6 came out it fell behind again. The K6-2 is not the best platform for Crafty for sure. The K6-3 is much better but it is also better for Hiarcs. As for the info below, I believe you are correct and Dr. Hyatt must be applauded for his work. Jim Walker ************************************** > >By the way, >Crafty was one of the first available programs to have book learning. >Crafty was one of the first available programs to have position learning. >Crafty was one of the first available programs to use correct pgn. >Crafty was the first available programs to use egtbs (S. J. Edwards) >Crafty was the first available programs to use egtbs (E. Nalimov) >Crafty was the first available programs to use symetric multi processing. >And Crafty runs on many different operating systems. >And Crafty comes with source code, you may modify it for your own purposes. >And Crafty is free. > >No wonder that Crafty has a lot of lovers > >Kind regards >Bernhard
This page took 0.01 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.