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Subject: Re: 184 Games - Crafty 19.03 "x" vs Ruffian 1.0.1

Author: bobby palacios

Date: 05:13:33 03/06/03

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On March 06, 2003 at 02:39:42, Uri Blass wrote:

>On March 06, 2003 at 01:50:29, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2003 at 01:01:32, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On March 05, 2003 at 22:37:56, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 05, 2003 at 22:24:45, bobby palacios wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On March 05, 2003 at 20:23:07, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On March 05, 2003 at 19:56:30, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Ruffian vs Crafty 19.03 "x", Blitz:  Game /5
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Dual 1.8 Ghz Xeon
>>>>>>>Ponder On
>>>>>>>Unified Hiarcs Tourn book
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Crafty 19.03 "x"   +62 -53 =69 52.45%  96.5/184
>>>>>>>Ruffian 1.0.1      +53 -62 =69 47.55%  87.5/184
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This is clearly the best result a modified Crafty (for me) has ever obtained
>>>>>>>against Ruffian at Game/5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This is the last game played - Ruffian has the advantage and lost it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ruffian 1.0.1  - Crafty 19.03 'x' [B33]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>W=11.2 ply; 512kN/s; 959 TBAs
>>>>>>B=10.9 ply; 748kN/s
>>>>>
>>>>>This is a bit strange.  On my p4 2.47ghz, Ruffian generally outsearches Crafty
>>>>>19.03 by about 100-200kn/s, but certain engines run better on certain machines,
>>>>>so maybe this is expected.
>>>>
>>>>Since I compiled Crafty on my machine using profiled optimizations, it would be
>>>>highly optimized for my machine.
>>>>
>>>>:))))))
>>>
>>>I am surprised by the number of nodes of Ruffian.
>>>
>>>Even on my slow P850 Ruffian can show more than 512 Kn/seconds
>>>
>>>Here is some analysis of one of the position of the game by Ruffian.
>>>depth=12 1/48(Rh5) +0.96 Rh5 Rc3 Qxc3 Qxh5 g4 Qg5 Qa3 h5 h3 Qh4 Qxd6 Qxh3 Qxa6
>>>hxg4 Qxb5
>>>Nodes: 34277608 NPS: 548266
>>>Time: 00:01:02.52
>>>
>>>Why did Ruffian search only 512 knodes per second on 1.8Ghz?
>>>Are you sure that Ruffian used 100% of the time of your second processor?
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>Yes - I do checked that frequently to make sure no are problems.  My p4 behaves
>>more like a P3 1000(?guess) for many chess programs that are not optimized
>>specifically for the P4.
>
>How much speed can programs earn from optimizing them for p4?
>
>Do you get more than 50% speed improvement from your optimizations?
>
>748 nps is almost 50% more than 512 nps and I read in this thread that a person
>with pentium4 who did not do special optimizations said that Ruffian is faster
>than crafty on p4.
>
>Uri

Just for comparison

Ruffian gets around 1,000-1,100 kn/s on my p4 2.47ghz,
Crafty 875-950 kn/s.  So Crafty outsearching Ruffian by almost 50% was a bit of
a shock.



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