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Subject: Re: Crafty 17-10 v Fritz 6a Nunn 1 @ 120'/40 + 60'/20 + 30'

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 04:55:29 04/28/00

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On April 28, 2000 at 06:02:09, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>>I posted before about two matches Fritz 6a - Crafty 17.10 that I played
>>yesterday  with ponder on, tablebases and same opening book. On 2 identical
>>machines and game/1 minute, Fritz won 15-5. On the same machine and 50% CPU time
>>for each engine, game/2 minutes, Fritz won by the same 15-5. This is consistent
>>with Chessfun's results, which seems to indicate that ponder on/off is not
>>harming Crafty more than Fritz. The result that doesn't fit with all this is the
>>SSDF match, although the 15-10 of the SSDF seems much more real to me than the
>>75% scored by Fritz in the other matches. 75% means a difference of 200 Elo
>>points, and in no way Crafty is 200 points weaker than Fritz. A bit messy
>>altogether.

I forgot your results on one computer, but Nunn positions and the use of an
opening book is an important difference. What program do you use to allocate
processor time fairly?

Best wishes...
Mogens



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