Author: James T. Walker
Date: 05:03:41 04/10/00
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On April 10, 2000 at 03:24:17, Bernhard Bauer wrote:
>On April 10, 2000 at 01:48:40, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Thanks for SSDF! Crafty's rating is only 2 points from Hiarcs7.32! Wow. And
>>note, that with Celeron PC Crafty runs relatively 30% faster.
>>
>>Jouni
>
>The SSDF can not tell us how good Crafty really is.
>They may only give us a lower bound for the strength of Crafty against
>computers.
>
>My Crafty doesn't use the chessbase interface.
>My Crafty uses the Nalimov egtbs - without the SSDF space limitations.
>My Crafty runs on two processors.
>
>But I use Crafty now for several years, so I don't need anybody to tell me
>how strong Crafty really is.
>
>Someone in the past stated that commercial programs are at least 100 rating
>points stronger than Crafty, so now we may ask:
>Where are the commercials???
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What am I missing??
1 Fritz 6.0 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2721 39 -37 368 67% 2594
8 Crafty 17.07/CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2624 46 -44 251 62% 2541
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97 Points
Most of the statements about Crafty being below the commercials referred to
Crafty 15.XX/16.XX a year ago when Fritz 5.32 and Junior 5 and Hiarcs 7.32 were
new. I have watched Crafty get better each month while the commercials only
come out once a year. The new Hiarcs should be due in a few months. I was
about to test Crafty myself (At 40/2) because of the noticed improvement over
the past year untill I was told that SSDF was coming out with the a new list
including Crafty. Crafty is a great program but when Fritz 6 came out it fell
behind again. The K6-2 is not the best platform for Crafty for sure. The K6-3
is much better but it is also better for Hiarcs. As for the info below, I
believe you are correct and Dr. Hyatt must be applauded for his work.
Jim Walker
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>
>By the way,
>Crafty was one of the first available programs to have book learning.
>Crafty was one of the first available programs to have position learning.
>Crafty was one of the first available programs to use correct pgn.
>Crafty was the first available programs to use egtbs (S. J. Edwards)
>Crafty was the first available programs to use egtbs (E. Nalimov)
>Crafty was the first available programs to use symetric multi processing.
>And Crafty runs on many different operating systems.
>And Crafty comes with source code, you may modify it for your own purposes.
>And Crafty is free.
>
>No wonder that Crafty has a lot of lovers
>
>Kind regards
>Bernhard
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