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Subject: Re: Crafty 1910 SE vs Ruffian2 I hate this , but

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:04:14 02/05/04

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On February 04, 2004 at 21:16:26, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On February 04, 2004 at 20:54:58, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>Ok
>>
>>I received  Mike's 1910 SE Crafty Edition, and having had good,
>>albeit short results with Ruffian 2 versus 1909 Crafty (Peter Skinner)
>>6 games ...No wins by Ruffian 2...yeah, yeah too few games..yada, yada.
>>Nevertheless, I was encouraged to learn more about the new CCT-6
>>Crafty...1910. So off I went into another Blitz match..damm my need for
>>immediate gratification...Isn't that a sign of immaturity :-) Anyway
>>here are the results:
>>
>>Chessbase Gui
>>542 (cough) Mhz
>>Win 98 SE
>>16 MBRAM
>>Ponder Off...Sorry crafty
>>5 move.ctg
>>30 games
>>
>>Crafty 1910 vs Ruffian 2 5.ctg :5' Blitz
>>
>>                     123456789012345678901234567890
>>1   Ruffian 2.0.0    1100011111110½½100½½1001101111 19.0/30
>>2   Crafty 19.10 SE  0011100000001½½011½½0110010000 11.0/30
>
>30 games are just a short blip on the radar  -- I ran 150 games against Ruffian
>1.05  -- Ruffian won by a few games a +6 overall.
>
>Different books, no pondering etc etc impact Crafty.  Skinner optimizes his
>Crafty for his machine -- I optimized Crafty for my macnhine -- so depending
>where your processor falls - his might be better for your machine, mine might be
>better for some else's machine.

How much speed improvement do you get from optimizing Crafty for specific
machine.

If it is something in the order of being 10% faster then the difference in elo
should be in the order of 10 elo and I guess that you may need thousands of
games to get significant difference when you test against other programs.

Uri



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