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Subject: Re: Is Crafty not in the WCCC2004?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:11:38 05/22/04

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On May 22, 2004 at 22:33:58, Derek Paquette wrote:

>Hi, i just took a look at the WCCC2004 page and to my surprise Crafty is not in
>it,
>
>is the page just not being updated properly?
>
>If it is just slow and delayed I have a few questions for Bob,
>what Crafty version is going to be used and on what hardware?

Most recent version, always.  Hardware is unknown.  I am trying for a 4-way or
8-way 2.4ghz opteron as a worst-case, maybe something even better.  But it is
late to really look for good hardware.  Whether it will work out or not is
unknown...



>In some previous posts you were talking about 'perhaps' increasing Crafty's
>strength and you might be making leaps and bounds with its performance (your
>also waiting for a new box to come in i 'believe')

Yes...  we are going to work on a cluster-crafty this summer.  Got a Ph.D.
student interested so we are going to jump in starting in June...





>
>I use crafty 19.12 on chessanytime.com and it kicks a lot of ass,
>just wondering what the author is doing with WCCC


I'm trying to get it set up.  It is "iffy"...




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