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Subject: Re: crafty 19.6 better than 17.14

Author: Alex Szabo

Date: 09:31:41 12/06/03

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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.

Here are some more details:
(1) 4 matches were run at the same time
(2) pondering was on (ie normally 8 craftys were competing for CPU time)
(3) hyperthreading was disabled (FYI, when enabled there are 4 processors and
5-10% better nodes/sec on this type of computation)
(4) use of 3 & 4 piece tablebases was enabled and cache set to 32M
(5) learning was disabled
(6) there was no opening book; games started from 10,000 different opening
positions compiled from a database of grandmaster games
(7) each unique starting position was played twice with players reversed
(8) all other crafty settings were default
(9) used 17.14 compiled with icc (-O3 -march=pentium4) which gets 849,011 n/s on
bench command
(10) used 19.6 compiled with icc (-O3 -march=pentium4) which gets 796,900 n/s on
bench command



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