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Subject: Re: Opinions? A Crafty experiment...

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 10:29:21 05/24/04

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On May 24, 2004 at 13:20:54, Slater Wold wrote:

>On May 24, 2004 at 13:19:36, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>
>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:56:56, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:29:04, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 24, 2004 at 12:06:46, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>In a thread below, there is a post about Blargh, ICCs top computer.  It
has won >>>>>60% of its games at standard time controls, and only lost 16% in
almost 3,000 >>>>>games!
>>>>>
>>>>>I am interested to know the OoO (opinion of outcome) of EVERYONE at the
>>>>>following experiment, I will be in contact with the operator of Blargh,
and will >>>>>try to set this up.
>>>>>
>>>>>Crafty 19.13 on an AMD FX53 (64-bit) vs Shredder 8 on a Dual Opteron
2.2Ghz >>>>>(32-bit)
>>>>>
>>>>>10 game match.  120/0.
>>>>>
>>>>>Opinions?
>>>>
>>>>Crafty on equal hardware probably doesn't stand a realistic chance against
>>>>Shredder. Only Fritz scores at least 45% against Shredder on the latest
SSDF. >>>>Junior and Hiarcs score at least 40%. Crafty would be behind those
engines on >>>>equal hardware by a non-trivial margin (take the Junior-Crafty
10x experiment >>>>for example).
>>>
>>>OoO please...
>>>
>>>>What is interesting about a Shredder-Crafty match where Crafty is at a
hardware >>>>_disadvantage_?
>>>>
>>>>BTW, that really explains a lot about why he is #1 on ICC. You have a
freakin' >>>>FX53 and you're at a hardware disadvantage! Wow...
>>>
>>>It's a disadvantage, but a small one.  How small?
>>>
>>>Crafty on a 2.2Ghz Opteron in 32-bit gets about 1.5M NPS.  With a 1.89
speedup, >>>we get 2.8M nps.  My FX53 (64-bit) will do 2.6M.  It's at a 8% HW
disadvantage. >>>
>>>8% means nothing in a 120/0 game.
>>
>>
>>I don't really think that Shredder vs Crafty would cause too many divergent
>>opinions re OoO... I'd rather suggest you invited another engine for a match:
>>Diep.  That would probably be closely followed by about one half of this
forum >>and the final result would reverberate loudly in the months to come
:-). >
>Vincent isn't going to let anyone run a current version of Diep against
Crafty. >We all know that...


DIEP played two standard games against crafty yesterday on ICC with Vincent
himself presiding (and pontificating).  DIEP lost them both.



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