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Subject: Re: About CC-events in the US

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:22:57 11/20/03

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On November 20, 2003 at 17:12:30, Matthew Hull wrote:

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>>>>>>It has been tested once in a Rebel vs. Crafty match where Crafty was given a 100
>>>>>>to 1 time advantage. The match was aborted after Rebel won the first game.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Look a crafty on ICC, with barely a 2x hardware advantage it goes toe-to-toe
>>>>>with Rebel, Shredder, Tiger, etc.  None of those programs dominate crafty.  So
>>>>>your "friendly" _little_ jibe is demonstrated to be bogus.  ;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>ICC is mainly blitz.
>>>>
>>>>Longer time control help the stronger programs.
>>>
>>>
>>>The CCT history suggest commercial advantages are not that large.  GCP already
>>>told Bob he did not want to play a match with Crafty on Opteron 4-way.  If
>>>Crafty or Ferret shows up somewhere on a 32-way or higher, are you going to put
>>>your money on a commercial entry?
>>>
>>>I didn't think so.
>>
>>I expect Crafty18.15 not to lead the ssdf even if it gets hardweare that is 6
>>time faster than A1200
>>
>>The gap between Crafty and Shredder7.04 is 197 elo and even the optimistic
>>prediction of 70 elo per doubling the speed do not give it 197 elo.
>>
>>I expect Crafty18.15 to get better rating than shredder7.04 in case that it gets
>>hardware that is 6 times faster if the games are done at 1 minute/40 moves.
>>
>>If you use better hardware than A1200 and 120/40 or something close to it that
>>is done in the world championship then I expect Crafty to lose even with
>>hardware advantage of 10:1
>
>
>Crafty is now 19.4.  Read main.c to see the improvements since 18.14.  Also,
>Axel says, "Crafty is back" in the tournament he runs.  Your argument is out of
>date by over a year.

Shredder is now also not 7.04 but newer version that may be better.

Uri



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