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

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 10:04:59 04/11/00

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On April 11, 2000 at 03:36:15, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>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.

Neither do I.

Tony

>>
>>>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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