Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:33:24 07/22/00
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On July 22, 2000 at 10:04:58, blass uri wrote: >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? > Unless junior can run on unix, there is a big reason. NT is now limited to the Intel world only. The GUI would have to be completely rewritten. The parallel search stuff would have to be modified. If there are any windows-specific APIs being used, they would have to be replaced by unix calls. other than that, it would be easy. :) >Uri
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