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Subject: Re: Crafty 1812 much stronger?

Author: Ian Aston

Date: 07:02:22 10/21/01

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On October 21, 2001 at 09:19:07, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On October 21, 2001 at 08:10:22, Ian Aston wrote:
>
>>On October 20, 2001 at 13:48:41, Ian Aston wrote:
>>
>>>On October 20, 2001 at 13:32:18, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I haven't had much time to play the latest crafty. But the results so far do not
>>>>indicate a big difference. As for playing on one computer with ponder off. I
>>>>have a dual machine, and the results do not mesh perfectly. I would also
>>>>reccomend that you do not reuse engines in a match. Do you have learning enabled
>>>>in Yace, book and positional? Else crafty will win more than a few games by
>>>>repeating games. To download Yace:
>>>>http://home1.stofanet.dk/moq/download.htm
>>>>
>>>>MvH Dan Andersson
>>>
>>>Book and positional learning were enabled for these games but I did have reuse
>>>engines switched on.
>>>
>>>I have already downloaded the latest Yace version but thanks for the link
>>>anyway.
>>>
>>>IA
>>
>>
>>After 200 games +74 =65 -61  53.2%
>>
>>From what I have read, previous versions of Crafty and Yace were pretty close.
>>So maybe Crafty 18.12 does have a very slight edge over 18.11.
>
>Your results still look very close to me . Some results show Yace ahead others
>show Crafty.But the difference is never more than 10%. Your results seems to be
>the same..

Yes, you are probably right. To close to call, as they say.

IA

>
>
>>Maybe the fact
>>that I am using the K7 optimised version of Crafty on an AMD Athlon makes a
>>difference. Perhaps it needs more games. I did mean to go to 500 but I am now
>>more interested in how Yace 0.99.56 performs against Crafty 18.12 and other
>>engines.
>
>I benchmarked the so called K7 optimised version of Crafty18.12 and the one by
>Eugene Nalimov on Crafty's FTP. Eugene Nalimov's version was behind by less than
>1%. I doubt this translated to a great difference in strength.

I can't disagree.

IA

>
>And yes, I'm using a Athlon 1.4 Ghz computer



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