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

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 03:31:42 02/05/04

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On February 05, 2004 at 04:04:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

In theory , it is optimized for all machines, but the optimization is being
performed on one machine (mine) -- thus my machine may beneift more than any
other machine.



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