Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:31:26 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 11:50:31, James T. Walker wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 11:12:37, Roy Brunjes wrote: > >>On February 19, 2003 at 00:50:04, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>On February 18, 2003 at 22:57:47, Charles Worthington wrote: >>> >>>>I am cosidering making Crafty my primary engine for 3+2 and under games on the >>>>chessbase server. Does anyone have blitz stats (ie. w-l-d) for crafty vs various >>>>other engines? >>> >>>In my opinion Crafty is not a good blitzer. It appears to me that Crafty has >>>become better at longer time controls and worse at short time controls in the >>>last few years. The only info I have on Crafty is for Crafty 18.13 which scored >>>101 out of 278 games at G/5min vs various top programs in my blitz database. I >>>have Crafty 19.01 scoreing only 37.5 out of 100 games vs Deep Sjeng Beta on 2 >>>XP2400+ machines using auto232 (G/5min). I don't own a dual. >>>Jim >> >>Hmm... 101/278 is roughly 36.3 percent for Crafty 18.13. That is not even as >>good as the 37.5 points that Crafty 19.01 has. Granted, the sample size is much >>smaller for 19.01 than for 18.13, but is that data sufficient to clearly declare >>18.13 as better at blitz? >> >>Roy > >Hello Roy, >No, of course not. My opinion is based on my experience with my database and >results seen here. You have to consider the results for 19.01 were only against >one opponent. The 18.13 results was vs some of the top engines of today. >I also have played other crafty versions vs several beta engines and these test >are only in my mind since I did not save the beta engine games when I was not >sure it was the final version. I'm not saying my opinion is "proof" or >scientific. It's only my opinion based on my experience. Others have different >opinions based on different experiences. Nothing wrong with that. >Also I did not mean to say that Crafty 19 is worse than Crafty 16 at blitz. >What I mean is that while Crafty is getting better all the time it seems to me >that at blitz speed it's falling further behind the top engines of today >compared to where it was several years ago. The question is if it get better at tournament time control. I remember results of Peter berger when some old version did better both in blitz and in standard time control. Uri
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