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Subject: Re: crafty question.

Author: pavel

Date: 08:27:52 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 11:04:03, blass uri wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 10:50:00, pavel wrote:
>
>>mainly to Bob,
>>but anyones else's help is appreciated.
>>I am worried about crafty's speed. I think in a single processor, the only thing
>>that pulls it behind the commercial programs, is the speed. In a certain
>>position in my hardware when a commercial program has 13 depths or atleast sees
>>deeper in less time, on the other hand crafty takes "comparably" longer time to
>>see the same position or better position. I am comparing between the chessbase
>>programs (junior, fritz) and crafty (as a chessbase native program).
>
>
>The depth is not important because different programs do different extensions.
>If you compare Crafty's depth with hiarcs you will find that Crafty goes deeper
>but Hiarcs also wins Crafty in blitz.

If you go to chess.net you will see some some fritz accounts (example
testing..., fritz-x) they use and autoplayer to play fritz on online chess
servers. watch fritz clones play against vipp-computers and also watch it play
against bryant. you will know the differance. Bryant runs on a single processor
and so doesnt see the same "depth" or "plies" as fritz does. but when it plays
against vipp-computers it either plays the same level or worse. but not better.
i am not coming to any conclusiong with this example.
but saying that with same speed ( or same depth) crafty plays better comperably,
as vipp-computers runs on multi-processors.



>Junior's depth is not plies so you cannot compare apples with oranges.

 I am not comparing anyone with anyone .....
I am talking about crafty's playing strength with increased speed.
the chessbase programs was an example.....
and I stated that too.


>
>I do not see a reason to worry about the fact that commercial programs win
>Crafty in blitz.

I do not worry about commercial programs winning crafty in blitz.
what I said was crafty looses commercial programs because of its speed most of
the time. or atleast thats what I meant.





>
>Crafty wins faile in all time controls(You can download fail in the chessbase
>site) and I do not see it as a problem.

apple and oranges?? you are comparing crafty with faile??
>
>
>
>>not many people has a multi processor. So I am wondering if is it possible to
>>maintain the same quality of game but with better speed? which is also my main
>>question.
>
>Bob does not do it and the reason is simply that he does not know about a way to
>do it.

dunno wbout it but thats what I wanna know? ;)


>
>I am sure that Bob is interested in doing his program better.
>
>>many people in this forum come up with blitz matches (5 min mainly) between
>>crafty and chessbase products, and claims that "this" program is far better than
>>crafty.
>
>The ssdf does tournament time control games and Fritz6a is number 1 and not
>Crafty(not every program can be number 1 and I do not see the problem).
again I dont know whats your point.

but as I have said i am not comparing anyone with anyoneelse here.
IMO SSDF is not perfect, also its "bogus" ( not literally)
but again its only "my opinion"


I thought of a better feedback.
seems like anti-crafty
anyways thats for the info. ( specially the ones about junior and apple and
oranges).
pavel


>Uri



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