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

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 00:36:15 04/11/00

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On April 10, 2000 at 11:30:23, blass uri wrote:

>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?

No. Did I say that not using the chessbase interface helps Crafty?
But it may help me.

>
>>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.

So what?
I don't have those limitations.

>
>>My Crafty runs on two processors.
>
>Deep Junior can also run on more than one processor.

Yes, Junior is the only program from top of the list that can use more
than one processor. The list however says nothing about the smp efficiency.

>
>>
>>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.

I didn't remember that.

>
>Uri

Kind regards
Bernhard



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