Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:21:27 04/18/01
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On April 18, 2001 at 12:49:49, Dann Corbit wrote: >On April 18, 2001 at 07:31:06, Aaron Tay wrote: >[snip] >>The answer is simple of course, the organisers consider Crafty too weak to take >>part.. > >You might remember the last CCC match, where professional and amateur games met >for a big contest. Crafty won. Crafty ran on an SMP system. Crafty is >designed from stem to stern to run on multiple CPU's. All the recent "deep >this" and "deep that" programs are recent conversions. There are going to be >bugs associated with such efforts, and things left out. I strongly suspect that >the strongest program + system is not entered in the contest. Be that as it >may, your supposition about feelings may be correct. However, the feelings were >misdirected. > >It is interesting, also that Vincent shows some sort of strange superlinear >speedup. This might not be just some chance phenomenon. I would like to see >what Diep can do on 8 CPU's. It never got good results in tournaments inspite of hardware advantage(in the last tournament it used a quad that was faster then the dual that Deep shredder and Deep Fritz used. I believe that Diep is going to lose. I consider Crafty or Ferret as better programs. Uri
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