Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:59:43 01/19/01
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On January 19, 2001 at 09:35:25, David Wilke wrote: >It has been stated by Robert many times that Crafty is blazing fast on an Alpha >processor. > >If this is the case, why wouldn't he use Alphas to run Crafty on the chess >servers instead of the big gun Xeons? > >What would be the actual cost of a Quad processor Alpha machine? > >And how much faster would Crafty be on that hardware? > >Also, it was stated if Robert cleaned up the Crafty code, it could become as >much as 2x faster. How much would that improve it's elo? if you double its speed, yes it would be stronger. Computer chess legend says that doubling -> 70 Elo improvement. Whether that is true or not is something else... > >If it would make it faster, why not do it? It would greatly hurt the ability to modify the code, or to even understand what it does. Cray Blitz would be a classic example of something that is nearly unreadable and _very_ difficult to modify because of this. > >Also would a manually made book be better for Crafty? definitely... but it is a real pain to do...
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