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Subject: Re: Modified Crafty 17.14 Leads CM8K tourney

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:48:09 07/23/02

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On July 23, 2002 at 19:42:47, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 23, 2002 at 19:38:33, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>I suspect that each program gets a single CPU and so ponders but does not get to
>use 2 CPU's.

Probably, but can you be certain? He didn't mention the GUI or whether pondering
was on/off.

jm



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