Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:12:43 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 20:09:42, John Merlino wrote: >On July 23, 2002 at 19:53:50, Mike Byrne 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. >>> >>>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 ;>) > >OK, sounds good to me. > >As for a special deal, I have no idea if Ubi Soft is going to have an upgrade >price or not. Nothing has yet been announced, I'm afraid.... If you sell it for $2 there will be people who squeal that it is too much. CM is the cheapest commercial program on the landscape. Quite a good product, even if it does have a knack for humiliating me. It would be nice if ChessMaster could read and write a batch of EPD records in standard format.
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