Author: Uri Blass
Date: 13:03:35 12/26/03
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On December 26, 2003 at 15:43:59, Slater Wold wrote: >On December 26, 2003 at 15:34:43, Darren Rushton wrote: > >>>Actually what happens, is the 366 is SLOW. And I mean SLOW. >> >>I don't intend to be controversial here, but the conclusion I draw from your >>results is that Shredder 7 is such a brilliant program it is almost a match for >>the one of the better amateur programs on hardware that's almost 10 times >>slower. >> >>Regards, >> >>Darren > >I don't disagree. Shredder is doing very well. Rebel won a single game in a >match against the same exact program (while Crafty won the 6). > >Shredder is getting an amazing 80k nps in most positions. 80k! Crafty is >getting 1.9M in some positions, and the lowest NPS number I have seen from >crafty was about 1.2M. > >I have even seen Shredder kill Crafty in a tactical match; which is >unbelievable. At an 8x disadvatange, you'd think that these games would mostly >boil down to tactics, and of course Crafty would win. Not so. I see no reason to expect Crafty to win in a tactical match. I believe that the potential tactical improvement for chess programs is clearly more than being 8 times faster and I do not find it surprising that people who worked for many years on their program found ways to do the program more than 8 times faster in some positions. Uri
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