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Subject: Re: American Chess Programs vs European Chess Programs

Author: martin fierz

Date: 15:12:05 01/11/04

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On January 11, 2004 at 17:34:34, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>On January 11, 2004 at 17:03:46, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2004 at 16:45:16, martin fierz wrote:
>>
>>>On January 11, 2004 at 15:45:54, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>
>>>>That's not bad at all!  I haven't tested against Crafty for a long time, but I'm
>>>>fairly sure
>>>>Gothmog is at least 250 points behind Crafty on a single-processor 32 bit
>>>>machine.
>>>
>>>hi tord,
>>>
>>>i'll bet you a beer that it's less than that!
>>
>>Hi Martin,
>>
>>I accept your bet, and I am willing to bet that the opposite is true.  If some
>>neutral person
>>is willing to run a 100-game blitz match between Gothmog 0.4.5 and the most
>>recent version
>>of Crafty on a single-processor 32 bit machine, and Crafty scores less than 81
>>points, I'll
>>buy you a beer if we ever meet.  :-)
>>
>>If you ever come to Norway, please be warned that the beer is ridiculously
>>expensive here.
>>
>>Tord
>
>A 40 games blitz match Gothmog 0.45-Crafty 19.06 (Dann Corbit) ended
>16,5:23,5 (+12 =9 -19)
>
>Gothmog without tablebase support since it does not work if the tablebases are
>located on a different harddisk.
>
>timecontrol 3 min without increment; AMD 1.6Ghz; CB-GUI; Fritz8.ctg book, both
>engines have to play each position with black and white; 64 MB hash; 3,4,5 men
>tablebases for Crafty
>
>In a second Blitz match on AMD 1.8 Ghz Gothmog has tablebase support.
>The results are clearly worse nevertheless.
>
>18:8 in favour of Crafty 19.06; time control is 5 min + 3 sec
>
>Crafty 19.06 DC performed much better than Crafty 19.08 DC in Blitz on my
>machines, so I will continue to use it.
>
>Michael

hi michael,

thanks for running the match. it's looking good for my beer ;-)

cheers
  martin



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