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Subject: Re: Continue the experiment........

Author: pavel

Date: 20:40:55 02/07/02

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On February 07, 2002 at 18:04:59, Ed Schröder wrote:

>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.  :)
>
>
>Slater, that's all fine and exciting. It allows Bob to have his ultimate revenge
>after 5 years. So I applaude to the idea, I have only no time to maintain a
>daily updated page. So if you find somebody who is willing to do the HTML job I
>will provide you with a copy of Rebel Century 4.
>
>-> The Crafty-Rebel NPS Re-match
>
>Yes, I like definitely it.
>
>Ed


I personally don't understand how this test is interesting and point is it
trying to prove?

pavs



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