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Subject: Re: what is strength of dual crafty

Author: ERIQ

Date: 17:00:55 09/28/03

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On September 28, 2003 at 17:44:48, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On September 28, 2003 at 16:54:20, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>Does anyone have an idea of what a current crafty's rating would look like if
>>ssdf used a dual 2400+ amd and does anyone think it could top the rating list!
>
>I love Crafty and believe that Bob Hyatt has done great work with Crafty and
>Cray Blitz.  But Crafty on a dual would not top the SSDF list.  Think about it
>for a second - Crafty has for years been open source .  The top commercial
>programmers for years have NOT made their source public.  So any CHESS
>programmer worth his salt should be able to make their chess program BETTER than
>Crafty.  But Crafty today is still one of the top free programs available and
>perhaps the top free program with open source.  Of course, you give crafty a
>sufficient hardware avantage, it could top any list.

yes, but a dual crafty running at 2400+ mp competing against 1.2ghz any program
should be considered a good match! but what I guess I'm trying to ask is what
would be the rating on ssdf of such a mashine.



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