Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:16:19 03/30/00
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On March 30, 2000 at 01:16:11, Mark Schreiber wrote: >Cray Blitz is the antecedent to crafty. It ran on a Cray computer and written in >assembler. It won a tournaments some 15 years ago. Its games are in the icca >journal. Hyatt was the principle designer. I think a tournament between any of >the great computers of 15 years ago and today?s top computers would be very >interesting. Hyatt said Cray blitz could beat all PC computers. I think Deep >Junior would beat any computer from 15 years ago. I guess if you had access to a >Cray, you could run Cray Blitz. It would not be easy. CB 15 years ago was still doing nearly 1M nodes per second. But a fairer test would be the last version of CB, on the latest Cray, which is good for nearly 10M nodes per second. DJ, Crafty, or any other program of today would have its hands completely full playing that program at that speed, regardless of the PC platform being used... > >On March 29, 2000 at 23:54:05, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On March 29, 2000 at 23:21:02, pavel wrote: >> >>>okies, >>> i have reading the posts of this forum for some time (3months). and i have >>>seen the mention of cray blitz a lot of time, but i am doubtfull is it a chess >>>playing program or a system the program ran. not only that i dont know anything >>>about it. any games available? or is the program itself available? >>>i know that hyaat had something to do with it (probably wrote the program). >>>is there any webpage where i can find details about it? >>>thanks >>>pavel. >> >>I guess Cray Blitz won the World Computer Chess Championship in 1986 was it? on >>a monster Cray computer. People keep asking if Crafty can beat Cray Blitz, not >>that it's important, but I find that a bothersome question since they're not >>geared for the same computers, and Cray Blitz probably hasn't been developed for >>years.
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