Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:30:01 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 06:36:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >On June 24, 1998 at 21:02:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On June 24, 1998 at 20:13:14, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi Bob: >>>I already have in operation the crafty for dummies version I downloaded form the >>>site I told you in a post. My question is: what newer and stronger engine than >>>the current I have in the package (12,7)is better for my computer, 200 Mhz, MMX? >>>Thanks in advance >>>Fernando >> >>This is always difficult to say, but based on the ratings of the various >>crafty clones on ICC, 15.14/15.15 are playing better... 15.x has a lot of >>SMP stuff for parallel search, but that can be compiled out to get a non- >>SMP version that has the most recent eval/search/book changes.. > >Easy to answer: 12.7 and 12.9 are by far the strongest that's a bogus claim. over the past 3 weeks, I have played some with 15.x and with 12.9, on the same machine (non-smp) on chess.net. I played about the same number of games with each, and 15.x is winning about 10% more games against the same opponents. Not a huge gain, but measurable. In blitz games played using xboard between the two (12.9 and 15.15) 15.15 shows to be about 60 rating points better over 500 games. Again, not substantial, but significant.
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