Author: Mark Young
Date: 18:40:10 11/03/97
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On November 02, 1997 at 15:43:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 02, 1997 at 10:34:18, Mark Young wrote: > >>Robert i have played Ferret and Crafty 100's of times on icc, fisc, and >>chess-net. Under my account names Klamath, Carokann, and phibs. I >>understand very well how strong ferret and crafty are. My point was many >>people tend to think that computer speed is everything. I have found as >>long as the computer is not more then 2x's slower i will take the better >>program and win with it more offen the lose. >>I only made this point because of some of the post i read saying that >>the alpha's should not be playing in the WMCCC. ( I am speaking more for >>standard time controls then blitz times. ) > >I misunderstood then. I read it as "ferret is not strong, even on fast >hardware." That I totally don't agree with. Your PII/300 is almost >identical in performance to his Polywell alpha/533, based on benchmarks >Bruce did in Paris and benchmarks I have done here on the one PII/300 we >have in our department. Given that, how have you fared against him? >That's >a pretty good indicator since hardware is equal... Chessgenius 5 has not done well vs ferret, but its only a 16 bit program so thats not unexpected. cm5500 has been much better vs ferret at blitz as it has almost won 50 % of its games vs ferret. I have not played rebel9 vs ferret yet as bruce had left for paris the day i got rebel9. i expect rebel 9 my not beat ferret a blitz but in the test i ran i would expect rebel 9 to top ferret a standard time controls. ( i run rebel on two computers one for rebel and one for blitzin so i lose 4 to 6 sec. per move. so it hurt me playing blitz.)
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