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Subject: Re: GNU chess

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 16:11:17 04/23/98

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On April 23, 1998 at 12:50:13, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On April 23, 1998 at 12:13:16, Stuart Cracraft wrote:
>
>>On April 23, 1998 at 10:28:26, TCH wrote:
>>
>>>How strong is GNU chess? My best guesstimate is roughly 2100-2200.
>>>Anybody have a definite idea?
>>
>>Depends on the hardware you run it on. I know Bob Hyatt relates
>>many cases where he runs tests between Crafty and GNU and GNU is
>>crushed. The only game I have between the two is on a 25mhz 486
>>with thinking on opponent's time turned off and at 60/5 time control
>>and GNU crushed Crafty 14.3.
>>
>
>I think that this also strongly depends on the version of GNU chess
>which you have selected. And also on your selection of the huge number
>of compiler switches in the program, what did you take (e.g. Nullmove,
>recursive Nullmove, DeepSearch, ON or OFF...).
>
>In my opinion, the GNU chess 4.77 (and maybe later) already plays on a
>very reasonable level. (But certainly still lower than Crafty).
>
>On a P200MMX, I guess 2300 or even slightly above.

For both Crafty 14.3 and GNU 4.0 pl77, the default settings were used
with the exception that:

	1) time control was 60 / 5
	2) no thinking on opponent's time

Despite this, GNU crushed Crafty 14.3 in the trivial one-game sample.
The reason I did not test more is that I wanted to test and develop
another program.

--Stuart




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