Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:25:21 07/23/02
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On July 23, 2002 at 20:12:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I remember when you requested that, and it IS on the to-do list. It MIGHT get into an early patch, but it unfortunately will not be in the initial release. jm
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