Author: Carsten Kossendey
Date: 08:39:35 04/25/98
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On April 25, 1998 at 09:13:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 25, 1998 at 05:15:59, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: > >>Here is another Stonewall game, this time against Crafty. Bob made the >>comment in RGCC that Crafty's code had been changed to recognize the >>pawn >>structure. I don't know for sure if the early exchange of pawns made >>Crafty not realize what it was getting into. Unfortunately it's not the >>latest and greatest Crafty, and it's not running in the fastest hardware >>either. >> >>[Event "Private Match"] >>[Site "Yokosuka, Japan"] >>[Date "1998.04.25"] >>[Round "1"] >>[White "Garcia, Baldomero"] >>[WhiteElo "1997 USCF"] >>[Black "Crafty 14.6 Mac Performa 6320"] >>[BlackElo "2205 LCT2"] >>[Result "1-0"] >> > >Basically, your explanation is correct. 14K nodes per second when I'm >now used to seeing 300K is very slow... slow enough that Crafty on my >machine playing 10 seconds per move would out-search crafty on your mac. 14K nodes is indeed not exactly fast ;) >Also, this version appears to be one that was "right in the middle" of >some changes to the Stonewall code... Perhaps 15.4 will be compiled for >the Mac soon, and you can try it again... I'll be uploading it to your machine in a few minutes. >but remember, Crafty is a >"null-mover" which means slow computers are really incompatible with it, >since it was "designed" on a P6/200. If you slow it down by a factor >of 10, you can expect null-move problems, and in the Stonewall, there is >*plenty* of opportunity for them... I'll upload a null-move disabled version as well. Since few people sell their Macs and keep them for years (just for the record I still own one which is ten years old now) that seems advised ;)
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