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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.12 is scoring ahead of three commercial programs !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:47:49 05/07/04

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On May 07, 2004 at 13:51:38, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On May 06, 2004 at 17:56:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I think that at least in the case of hiarcs and the king (that do not support
>>SMP) you may be better when every programmer pick the best hardware that can be
>>used by his program.
>>
>>Uri
>
>I think you are absolutely right about that. Crafty during the last CCT was
>dominant. I don't think the outcome would have been different if the other
>participants used greater hardware than they did.
>
>Crafty on the opteron box Robert used was simply devastating to the competition.
>
>Peter

I would not go that far.  The games vs Hiarcs and Junior were way interesting.
Not easy blow-outs.  Both ended in well-deserved draws...  However, Crafty did
push pretty hard, but just mis-evaluated a thing here and there so that the
extra search power wasn't enough.



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