Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 00:25:46 02/01/04
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On January 31, 2004 at 19:03:57, Roger Brown wrote: >>Own Books? >>Hashtables? >>TBs? > > > >Each engine used its own book. Ruffian Leiden used the Leiden book and Crafty >the book that has been available for years on Professor Hyatt's site. I think I >may change that soon because Dann Corbit compiled a narrow tournament book and >the latest Crafty site has a newer and better (?) book. I mean, Professor Hyatt >just had Crafty eat some pgn and spit out a book for goodness sake. Surely >Crafty deserves a crafted book... (that was just awful). > > >Hash was 50 Mb each (or as near as I could get considering that Crafty goes up >in steps so hash was 48 Mb). > > >All 4 man egtbs. > Thanks > >Your view that this result is not a good one for Crafty misses the point of what >this post was about. I was not trying to eastablish any other point but this: > >Crafty is *not* mincemeat for Ruffian. I have posted the result of a Crafty 19.06-Hiarcs 9 Blitz match some time ago. 250 games 5+3 on AMD 1.8Ghz. Crafty scored about 36%. According to the various rating lists Ruffian 2 is clearly weaker than Hiarcs 9 in Blitz. The context of that remark is to be >found in postings some time ago which suggested that in a match between Crafty >and this version of Ruffian that Crafty would be crushed. Certainly not Michael > >My *very* limited match on my slow, outdated but beloved piece of hardware seems >to indicate that caution is indicated before making such an assertion. > >I just wanted to save some people some money because Professor Hyatt was looking >for some easy cash and he wanted some takers for that bet...... > >:-) > >Thanks for reading the post. > > >Later.
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