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Subject: Re: Modified Crafty 17.14 Leads CM8K tourney

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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