Author: Pete Galati
Date: 14:39:45 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 17:20:44, odell hall wrote: >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 I dissagree, Crafty is able to use more than one prossesor so the other programs can catch up with Crafty or probably loose. Keep in mind that _I_ can't use one of those Craftys, but it is available, and that can't be done with most of those other programs. I don't think that equal is fair at all, but I'm not going to get into a back & forth discussion about this, so I won't say any more about it. Pete
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