Author: Chris Carson
Date: 13:18:45 08/18/00
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On August 18, 2000 at 12:47:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 18, 2000 at 09:46:37, Chris Carson wrote: > >>On August 18, 2000 at 09:27:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On August 17, 2000 at 22:32:44, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>On August 17, 2000 at 22:09:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 17, 2000 at 12:39:13, Chris Carson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On August 17, 2000 at 12:10:32, walter irvin wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> i wonder how fritz6 on a 1 ghz would have stacked up vs hitec or cray blitz or >>>>>>>for that matter deep blue ???????ok maybe deep blue is a stretch , but hitec or >>>>>>>cray blitz ???? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> also with the new computer world championship commimg up year 2000 .i wonder >>>>>>>how the world champ from 84 or 85 would do in this years tourny ????? have >>>>>>>things really got that much better????? >>>>>> >>>>>>Ok, I'll bite. :) >>>>>> >>>>>>My opinion (take it with a grain of salt because we cannot match up >>>>>>the programs). :) >>>>>> >>>>>>1. Fritz6 (PIII 1GHZ) vs Hitec (1989 hardware) Fritz6 wins +200 ELO >>>>>>2. Fritz6 (PIII 1GHZ) vs Cray Blitz (1989 hardwar) Fritz6 wins +200 ELO >>>>> >>>>>You did know that we were doing over 1M nodes per second in 1989? >>>> >>>>The number of nodes is not important but the quality of the moves. >>>>Hiarcs7.32 searches less nodes than Junior4.6 or Fritz3 but is a better program. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>> >>>Cray Blitz and crafty are _very_ similar now. Do you think Crafty at 7M >>>nodes per second would get rolled over very badly by fritz at 1M? I don't. >> >>Well, Blitz or Crafty on a Cray at 7M NPS would be a good matchup for Fritz6, >>Junior6, Shredder4, Hiarcs7.32, Chess Tiger ... on a PIII 1Ghz. :) >> >>However, I would give the nod to Fritz or DJ6 on a PIII 8x800 mhz. Just >>my opinion, I would rather see the match-up, who knows how it would turn >>out and I would love to see Crafty at 7M NPS play all of the above. You >>did a great job with Cray Blitz and you have done a great job with Crafty >>and so has Amir with Junior, the fritz team, shredder team, Ed with Rebel, >>Hiarcs team, christophe chess tiger, ... :) Bring_it_on for the next >>WCCC! :) >> >>Best Regards, >>Chris Carson > > >I doubt I will ever compete in a WCCC event with a Cray, again. They are >simply too hard to get time on. Compaq may be willing to put up a 32 cpu >alpha, however. That is a 32M node per second machine, easily... > >If there is another WCCC event, of course. I think it is very doubtful. I understand the problem with getting time on the Cray. The 32 cpu alpha would be a very powerful system for Crafty to run on. Hopefully there will be another WCCC, but perhaps not. Pity. Best Regards, Chris Carson
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