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Subject: Re: Finally we know how good Crafty is...

Author: blass uri

Date: 08:30:23 04/10/00

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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.

Do you have a proof that not using the chessbase interface help crafty?

>My Crafty uses the Nalimov egtbs - without the SSDF space limitations.

The same limitation are also for other programs like
Junior6a,Hiarcs7.32,nimzo7.32.

>My Crafty runs on two processors.

Deep Junior can also run on more than one processor.

>
>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???

This was based on blitz games and not on tournament time control games.

Uri



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