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Subject: Re: LeTiger and Crafty on ICC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:00:42 10/31/00

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On October 31, 2000 at 07:55:50, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 31, 2000 at 07:06:36, Andreas Stabel wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 2000 at 00:28:55, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>On October 30, 2000 at 22:49:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 30, 2000 at 21:30:09, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I just went and checked to see what Crafty has been doing recently, and it has
>>>>>been idle for 44 minutes.  It has played four games in the past eight hours.  It
>>>>>has played seven games so far today and it played eight yesterday.
>>>>>
>>>>>It doesn't seem that you need to worry that much about people hogging it.  If
>>>>>Crafty has been idle for 45 minutes, why not play against a Tiger?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is not real common.  And Murphy's law often strikes.  IE I logged on
>>>>Friday and had two different complaints from humans that got interrupted.
>>>
>>>Just checked again and guess what?  Idle: 44
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>What's itching you. There are litterally tens of craftys you can play any
>>time. There is scrappy which has the same hardware as crafty
>
>
>I remember that scrappy had twice slower hardware than Crafty.
>
>I remember that the idea behind scrappy was to see the influence of hardware
>difference against computers and against humans.
>
>Scrappy is slower than Crafty unless there is a change that I do not know.


There is a change.  What you said used to be true, but now scrappy runs on
identical hardware, with the same book, TBs and so forth.  The _only_ difference
is that it has !computer in its formula, as an experiment to see whether Crafty
does better vs humans or vs computers/humans combined.



>
>, you can
>>download the source or an executable yourself.
>
>It is not going to help if you do not buy a new computer with more than one
>processor.
>
>Uri



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