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Subject: Re: crafty 19.6 better than 17.14

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 08:42:19 12/06/03

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On December 06, 2003 at 11:33:42, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On December 06, 2003 at 11:22:15, Alex Szabo wrote:
>
>>My self-play experiment between crafty versions 19.6 and 17.14 resulted in the
>>19.6 version being stronger by 11 (plus or minus 2) rating points.
>>
>>The experiment was for 20,000 games at a 20+1 time control.  It was run on a
>>2x2GHz pentium4 linux system with xboard 4.2.6.  I can include other details if
>>there is interest.
>
>20.000 Games at a 20+1 time control? How many month did your test last? It seems
>to me impossible to play 20.000 games with Crafty 19.6 since this version is
>only a few weeks available.
>
>regards Joachim

I thought the same thing - but then I did the math and I felt it was possible.
His 20 +1 must mean 20 seconds plus 1 second - not 20 minutes plus 1 minute.
You could play 20,000 games of 20 seconds plus 1 second in about 500 hours.
Just about 3 weeks , if played continously.



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