Author: Reynolds Takata
Date: 00:16:49 12/04/98
In the post below, R. Hyatt States, that Crafty is a "reasonably Strong IM". Then he goes on to state, that on equal hardware Crafty isn't as good as the commercial programs. So Is R. Hyatt alluding that he thinks perhaps some commercial strength programs are GM strength? Perhaps he is referring to fast time controls only here? Though it seems(to me) that he is reffering to standard time controls. Just wondering because in the recent past months, i seem to recall him stating that progs perhaps weren't even I.M strength. Recently I have noted a veritable explosion of noted authorities claiming progs are GM strength. Will this increasing acknowledgement of GM strength by computers increase the popularity of progs, Or will everyone become satisfied, and cease purchasing programs(for strength)? I myself have every program in the SSDF top ten, including most of the newer unrated ones(CM6000, MCP8, R10, J5) except for CSTAL and TIGER :(. Why do I have these programs? The honest answer i'm starting to think is just a habit of wanting the newest thing :). I'm starting to think my appetite for progs is satiated, but then again just start to having everyone say that some new program is definitely a GM and i'll probably be hooked :), like a fish. "I only have a small amount of data. It won the Pan American chess tournament about 2 years ago, and has a USCF rating of just under 2400, running on a single pentium pro/200mhz machine. It has also played in two tournaments with GM players, but at somewhat rapid time controls (game/30) and finished ahead of all the GM's in the event, as did the other programs involved... It probably plays like a reasonably strong IM player on good hardware, which is where I think most of the micros are lumped as well. Is it "close to the commercial programs?" Depends. On a quad-processor it is as good as any of them or better, based on results on ICC. On equal hardware it isn't as good... But it can play chess..." -- Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station
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