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Subject: Re: Modified Crafty 17.14 Leads CM8K tourney

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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