Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:56:04 02/17/04
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On February 17, 2004 at 22:08:54, Derek Paquette wrote: >I have a question concerning the evolution of Crafty and where you want it in 6 >months time. >You stated only a few days ago that you could obtain a box that would be 50% as >fast as DB2, which would put your crafty kn/s at about 100,000,000 Actually what I said was that I had run on an 8-way opteron and saw NPS numbers reach 20M, and that a machine 4x faster is doable today. I used the number 40% as fast as DB, in terms of raw NPS. > > >So with this ability, and your constant provisions to Crafty, are you going to >put serious thought into competing for the man vs machine challenge, hoping to >beat out competitors so you can play the top GM. > I don't think there is going to be any "man machine challenge". IE Chessbase will probably sponsor their programs every now and then, but nobody is going to have a truly open competition to pick a competitor for a match where it is going to require a million dollars to entice the GM to play... >This is assuming of course Chessbase doesn't get all the sponsors for the event >and so you would be out of luck, > >aside from that though, does man vs machine interest you? and would you accept >draws as easily as the other programs had? or would you let Craft fight it out >for much longer? > >thanks, >-Derek I think everyone here knows the answer to the last question. I don't accept draws easily. :) And yes, man vs machine is the main thing that interests me, but realistically it isn't going to happen with Crafty unless something strange happens...
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