Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 09:19:20 04/05/04
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On April 05, 2004 at 07:20:26, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 05, 2004 at 05:38:43, Igor Gorelikov wrote: > >>New Infinite Loop-5, Ver-qual 10 (Crafty 19.12) >>----------------------------------------------- >> >>The 10th qualifier for new versions is concluded. >>To be qualified, a new version needs to take upper place than the best >>previous version. >> >>Crafty 16.19 still stays as a rock against new Crafties. > >Note that in case that the programs are equal Crafty16.19 had less than 25% >chances to score more than Crafty19.12(there are also chances that programs >score the same number of points) > >I tended to believe after first results that Crafty16.19 was simply lucky after >your first rating list(the second alternative is that Hyatt did not make >progress for many years in Crafty in comp-comp games) but now I tend to believe >that 16.19 is simply better(at least in the conditions that you tested).\ > >20 games are clearly not enough to decide which program is better but I also >know that it is not the only 20 games that 16.19 got better results in your >games. > >It may be interesting to know nodes per seconds for different crafties in your >machine and compare it with faster hardware(maybe your Celeron likes more 16.19 >relative to fast hardware). > >I mean to say that it is possible that some additional knowledge in Crafty does >it significantly slower in nodes per second for Celeron 1ghz and only slightly >slower in nodes per second for faster hardware. > >Uri One could also assume that the issue could be that version 16.19 is better able to deal with the HASH shortage vs newer Crafties. At the time control he is using and assuming that the system gets 500K NPS Crafty wants a minimum of 48M hash and 48M pawn hash (calculated via the adaptive 500K 1M 100M 1M 100M and level 0 30 3).
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