Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 10:38:31 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. >My Crafty uses the Nalimov egtbs - without the SSDF space limitations. What space limitations? Tony >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??? > >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
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