Author: James Swafford
Date: 12:24:56 06/05/99
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On June 05, 1999 at 15:04:20, Mark Young wrote: >I had the time today to log the top ICC chess programs and read their finger >notes as I do from time to time. When I came across Crafty's (Bob Hyatt's finger >notes) Bob's finger notes claim Crafty is running on a 486/66 with 4 MB ram, and >a 40MB hard drive. At the same time it is using 20GB of EGTB's (Ahhh. >compression software.:) ) > >Is this just a joke or some kind of protest or just plain sarcasm for other >underreporting their hardware? A possible example Mofongo, claiming to run on a >PII 450 and running Crafty has a rating of 3210, at the same time Crafty (bob's >crafty) running on qaud Xeon PII 400 has a rating of 2969. {Bob?) I noticed the same thing a week or two ago, and asked about it in channel 64. Nobody really knew, so I sent a message to Hyatt. No response. Obviously Crafty isn't running on a 486... I'm just curious why the fin notes say it is. -- James
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