Author: odell hall
Date: 14:20:44 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 16:23:30, Pete Galati wrote: >On September 11, 1999 at 16:07:47, odell hall wrote: > >>On September 11, 1999 at 15:27:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On September 11, 1999 at 14:05:12, Leon Stancliff wrote: >>> >>>>Robert, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have been speculating for a long time on what would take place in a match >>>>between the top ten computer programs running on easily available machines and >>>>the top ten chess players in the USA. >>>> >>>> I have been playing my Hiarcs 7 program on a Macintosh G3 at 275 Mhz. It plays >>>>almost even with both Data and Singacrafty on ICC. >>>> >>>> I have assembled the following list of computer programs from such sources as >>>>the SSDF list and the Selective Search list. In your opinion, would Data, >>>>Singacrafty or Crafty deserve a position in this list? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hiarcs 7.32 >>>> >>>> Fritz 5.32 >>>> >>>> Chessmaster 6000 >>>> >>>> Nimzo 99 >>>> >>>> Chess Tiger 11.8.2 >>>> >>>> Junior 5 >>>> >>>> Rebel 10 >>>> >>>> Shredder 3 >>>> >>>> Genius 5 >>>> >>>> MChess Pro 7 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Let's assume that each is running at about 550 Mhz on a single CPU. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> MChess Pro 7 >>> >>> >>>I wouldn't venture a guess. If you put crafty on a quad xeon 550, it can beat >>>_any_ of those programs. On equal hardware I really don't know as I don't play >>>on 'equal' hardware. :) >> >> >> Oh yes!, i would love to see the results of crafty verses the top programs on >>equal hardware, It would be interesting to see how it would measure up. > >Consider that putting Crafty on equal hardware takes away one of it's valuable >tools, probably not fair to the nature of Crafty. > >Pete Well, I would think that if the purpose of pitting one program against another is to see which program is written best, and has the best playing strength, then equal hardware is required, otherwise the test is not valid
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