Author: Gregor Overney
Date: 15:14:07 09/08/01
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On September 07, 2001 at 14:33:46, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 07, 2001 at 14:01:00, Gregor Overney wrote: > >>>I agree that Deeper blue was the best at 1997 but programmers learned a lot >>>after 1997. >>> >>I am not too sure about those algorithmic improvements that have been achieved >>from 1997 until 2001. For example, take Junior 5 and the newest version of it. >>Give version 5 a PIII/850 and the older one a PII/400. > >Junior5 is not from 1997 but from 1998. > >Junior4.5 won the micro world championship in the end of 1997. >The best program at the middle of 1997 was probably Genius of >richard lang. > >I believe that Genius on pIII/850 is going to lose >at torunament time control against Deep Fritz on PII400. > >I also believe that Junior7 PII/400 has good chances to win >against Junior5(PIII 850) if you do not play blitz but >tournament time control games. > As soon as I get my copy of Junior 7, I could try this one. I have two questions. 1) How do I play two Juniors on two different systems against each other? I have chessd (a new version of the old FICS code) on a seperate server. But so far, I was only unsing Winboard 4.2.3 to connect with chessd when trying different chess engines. 2) Does it matter if I get deep Junior, or is deep Junior on a single processor box worse than the single processor version of Junior? > You can repeat this test >>with Crafty from '97 and with the newest version 18.10. No great algorithmic >>improvements have been made that make a slower system with the newest engine win >>against an older version running on a significantly faster machine. Actually, >>regarding Crafty, I sometimes get the impression that 18.10 is not the strongest >>version of Crafty. > >I talked about the best commercial programs and not about Crafty. > >Uri
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