Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:01:47 02/07/02
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On February 07, 2002 at 15:54:47, Slater Wold wrote: >I have always been intrigued by the Crafty vs Rebel NPS challenge. Always >thought it was a shame that we never got to see an end result. > >With that said......... > >I would like to continue the experiment. Crafty of today vs any top commercial >program out there. > >What/Who I am looking for: > >1.) Someone who can play at LEAST 25 of these games. I will take Crafty, so I >will have the one with the tied up machine. You will only be required to >analyze a move for 3:30 minutes, every 8 hours or so. And e-mail the move, and >the eval to me. > >2.) Someone with up-to-date hardware and software. 1.5Ghz+ only. NEW software >only. Fritz 7, Junior 7, Gandalf 5.0, Rebel 4, CT 14.0, GT 2.0, etc. I don't >care if it's SMP. And I don't care which program. > >Match conditions: > >1.) New software gets 3:30 minutes a move. No PB. TB's are fine. >2.) DBII hit, on average, 42B nodes in 3:30 minutes. The latest version of >Crafty on my computer (Dual AMD 1.6GHz) gets 1.53M nodes a second average >(average of 30 positions for 3:30 minutes). Therefore, Crafty will get 7.5 >hours a move. (Approx. to the 42B node average.) Neither computer will be able >to utilize pondering. > >If you're interested, e-mail me. If you have any ideas, e-mail me or respond >here. > >Bob, if you could change Crafty to use 64 bit intergers, that would be nice. >Cause 7.5 hours is going to roll that node counter over a few thousand times. >;) > >Ed and Bob, I'd love to hear your feedback. :) I think it is more pointless today, unless you go back to something like the Jakarta version of Crafty 11.something. Crafty's eval is not "simple" and giving it 100:1 time odds against _any_ program is not going to show any more than if you give (say) rebel 100:1 time odds vs Tiger, or Tiger 100:1 odds vs Fritz or whatever. The point back then was a somewhat simple eval with a decent search vs a more sophisticated program at a far slower speed.
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