Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:53:50 07/23/02
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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. > >jm John, Crafty is using only 1 processor - thus each engine has a use of 1 processor which they use nearly 100% . I have verified this under the Windows NT Task Manager which sows each engine getting 50% of the dual processor usage.. Also since each engine has full use of a processor, pondering is on. So I think it is fair. CM9Klooks very intersting - hopefully you can do a special deal for us CCC members - as you would know it's us chess computer nuts that tell the world what chess program to buy ;>)
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