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Subject: Re: The NPS Challenge =-= All over again........

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:34:27 02/13/02

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On February 13, 2002 at 20:29:42, Slater Wold wrote:

>Ok, so I have decided to run the NPS challenge all over again.  And this time,
>there will be a winner.
>
>HOWEVER, there will be a few differences.  No one seems to have a version 11.x
>Crafty, and I don't have a computer to run the old Rebels.  So this is not by
>choice, rather by must.

ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/Ancient-Crafty/

It's very balky under Winboard.  I wouldn't recommend it anyway.

>Here it is:
>
>Century 4 vs Crafty 18.13
>
>20 games of 40/120.  Just to get a baseline.
>
>20 games of Century 4 @ 40/2 hours vs Crafty 18.13 @ 40/200 hours.  (Exactly
>100x the amount of time Century will have.)
>
>
>What this match will prove:  Not a damn thing.
>
>But you have to admit, if Crafty loses horribly in the first match, but does
>outstanding in the second match, wouldn't it raise your brow?  Would mine.
>
>Century will get approx. 3 minutes per move, Crafty will get approx. 200 minutes
>per move.  That is *quite* an advantage.
>
>I will post the games after each one is played.  With a current result.  PGN's
>and logs will be available by request.
>
>Ok Ed, up to you now.  All I need is Century 4.  :)
>(I have Century 3 by the way.)

I think we will see a butt-blasting in Crafty's favor.  Crafty's search is a lot
smarter now.  A 100 minute per move straight-up match would be more interesting.

Did you see Ed's chess in 2010 match (something like that).
Crafty was doing *very* well in it.  So extending the time for Crafty and
contracting the time for the opponent will just mean a one-sided whitewash.



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