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Subject: Re: Modified Crafty 17.14 Leads CM8K tourney

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:38:33 07/23/02

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On July 23, 2002 at 19:33:00, Mike Byrne wrote:

>Modified Crafty 17.14 leads a CM8K 5" 3' ,  7 Round SS tourney pitted against a
>wide range of standard CM8K GM settings and a few user built settings that are
>known to be quite strong.
>
>Standings after 5 rounds
>
>Player	                 W  L  D  S
>======                   =  =  =  =
>
>Modified Crafty 17.14    5  0  0  5.0
>CM8 Utz 12               4  0  1  4.5
>CM8 8777.32              4  1  0  4.0
>CM8 8777v4.0             2  0  3  3.5
>CM8 Schule 32            2  0  3  3.5
>CM8 Fun                  3  1  1  3.5
>Kamsky                   3  1  1  3.5
>Chessmaster              2  2  1  3.0
>Anand                    2  1  2  3.0
>Fischer	                 2  1  2  3.0
>
>After beating CM8777.32 in round 5, it is most likely Crafty will be paired
>against CM8 Utz 12 in what may be the championship game.  All players are using
>their own books, including Crafty.  Tournament is being played on a dual P4
>1.7Ghz Xeon  under WinNT.
>
>Modified Crafty is available for free (via email to mfbyrne_pa@msn.com) .
>
>Crafty.rc Settings:
>booster 76 76 225
>ext in 1
>ext th 1
>ext one .75
>ext pawn .75
>
>by design, Modified Crafty 17.14 does not use the recapture extension.
>
>It does have extensions that standard crafty does not have.

Not exactly fair hardware settings, since The King engine cannot take advantage
of a dual processor system. Also, I assume that pondering is off?

Still, it is an interesting tournament, as is your version of Crafty.

jm



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