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Subject: Re: Whats the difference between Crafty17-13 and Crafty17-14 ???

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:49:30 12/17/00

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On December 17, 2000 at 02:00:58, Tania Devora wrote:

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>Whats the principal difference between these two strong engines?
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>I test the two versions in 2 computers K7 800 Mhz for about 12 hours today.
>in total : 50 games, (5 minutes +7 seconds of increment bor both sides.
>A final score was :  23.5 points for Crafty17-13 and 26.5 for Crafty17-14.
>Almost the same result. Many Draws...  and a slight advantage for 17-14.
>
>I think that Crafty play very very good in the endgame. Posible one of the best
>chess program playing endgames. Too a great blitzer!!!  I love this program.
>
>Could The best Crafty version win the same  World Championship that CrayBlitz
>won? I mean Crafty running in the fastest today machine -Atlon 1000 Mhz or more.
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>I will like to see a match between Cray Blitz and Crafty.


The difference between versions is _always_ described in main.c in the source
distribution.  At the front of main.c, you will find thousands of lines of
comments explaining exactly what has changed between any two versions.

The Cray Blitz question is very hard to answer, because the Cray is far faster
than most realize.



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