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Subject: Re: New paradigm ???

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 16:20:09 11/10/00

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>That is the kind of thing I would worry about, if Crafty was doing it.  Crafty
>is presently not particularly fast.  I am pretty sure that I could make it at
>least 2x faster, if I was ready to cast a lot of things into stone, and _really_
>muck up the readability/understandability of the source.

I actually find the Crafty 17.14 version very slow, and results are proving that
possibly something might be wrong. In a match vs RoboElvis(C) on FICS using
Crafty 17.14 on a dual PII 300, vs my Gambit Tiger on a PIII 500, I scored
81W-15L-30D, this is rare, as usually Roboelvis destroys me.

When he uses Crafty 17.13, the win% is lower, and way more draws.

>And that incurs a penalty I don't mind, because I can pick up that factor of two
>with the right hardware...

Crafty used to be a brute. What is the explanation as to why it has fallen
behind so far? Not to say really far, but it seems to be having more problems
with commercial programs than before.



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