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Subject: Re: How About Djr vs Crafty???

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:04:58 07/22/00

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On July 22, 2000 at 09:56:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On July 22, 2000 at 05:39:34, blass uri wrote:
>
>>On July 22, 2000 at 04:59:48, David Blackman wrote:
>>
>>>On July 21, 2000 at 07:45:31, Graham Laight wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've noticed in some of the threads that Bob has stated (or sneakily implied!)
>>>>that Crafty does some things better than than Djr does.
>>>>
>>>>How about an ICC challenge between the two programs, guys?
>>>>
>>>>-g
>>>
>>>I don't think there is much doubt that Crafty does a lot of things better than
>>>Junior. Probably even Amir Ban would agree with that.
>>>
>>>On the other hand Junior does some things better than Crafty. Most noteably,
>>>Junior is significantly faster than Crafty. But there might be some more subtle
>>>things Junior does well also.
>>>
>>>All the indications are that there is not much difference in strength between
>>>the two. A match would be very interesting. But so would almost any competition
>>>between the top 20 or so programs.
>>
>>
>>I disagree.
>>
>>I think that there is more than 100 elo difference between the best program and
>>the 20th best program.
>>
>>The difference between Junior and Crafty is probably smaller but I still believe
>>that Junior is between 50 and 100 elo better than Crafty(see the ssdf rating
>>that suggest 65 elo difference).
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>I assume you mean on equal hardware, which I hope to never see happen in any
>important events.  :)

Is there a reason that Junior cannot use the same machine as Crafty?

I remember that I read that Crafty can use the alpha machine.
Is there a reason that Junior cannot use the same machine?
Is it hard to translate a program that can run on pentiumIII700*8 to an alpha
machine?

Uri



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