Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:43:24 04/24/00
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On April 24, 2000 at 15:01:22, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 24, 2000 at 14:42:36, A.L.Mourik wrote: > >>Hello to everyone, >> >>Two days ago I played a Nunn 2 match between Fritz 6 and Crafty 17.10. >>This whether to check if Crafty as supposed by e.g Jouni Uski was really as good >>as been told . >> >>The result in a Nunn 2 match that I held was disappointing because it ended in a >>clear 29,5 – 10,5 victory for Fritz6. >>Timelevel 5min +3 sec. PII 400 each 8 MB HT, pondering off. >>The only reason that I played a Nunn 2 Match between these two engines, was to >>TEST which program under equal circumstances, as in this case in the Fritz6 gui, >>scored the best. This as an indication of the “chesspower” of that engine. >>Imho these are the best circumstances with one computer to tell which program >>produces the best chess. >> >>You can’t argue on the fact that the circumstances for the given engines were >>not the same. >>As far as I can see it, your only real point is the presumption, that Crafty >>does a better time saving in the pondering on mode, than Fritz6. >>So I agree that with testing on two different computers and with both programs >>pondering on, this presumed negative effect for Crafty would be neutralised. >>On the other hand I wonder what Morsch or other respectable programmers opinion >>on these presumption is. > > > >I'm not sure I am a respectable chess programmer, but I want to ask something: > >Why is Crafty's management of pondering supposed to be superior to Fritz'? > >Why is pondering=off supposed to handicap Crafty more than Fritz? > >Who can seriously believe that Frans Morsch is so lousy that he cannot take >advantage of pondering as well as Bob does? > > > Christophe Here's my question. If pondering=off cripples Crafty so badly to the point that Bob Hyatt has to write dozens of posts about it, why doesn't he just do something to fix it? I mean, surely the time spent writing all those posts could have been put to better use. -Tom
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