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Subject: Re: Which engine is stronger ? Ruffian 2.0.x or the latest Crafty compil

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 09:41:40 07/28/04

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On July 28, 2004 at 12:24:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 28, 2004 at 12:01:43, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On July 28, 2004 at 11:49:18, Keith Kaplon wrote:
>>
>>>I have no data on this. I remember Dr. Hyatt's machine won an impressive
>>>computer tourney on ICC not too too long ago.
>>>
>>>I'm trying to set up an analysis program in Linux - and so far the only engines
>>>I have which work in Linux are Crafty and Ruffian 2.0.2 and Ruffian 2.1.0 (and
>>>of GNU chess).
>>>
>>>Any data much appreciated :-)
>>
>>on equal hardware most probably Ruffian.
>>
>>Here is a tournament when Ruffian scored slightly ahead of Crafty 19.12:
>>
>>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/his7thedition.html
>
>I think that it is dependent on the hardware that you use.
>
>You can also give both programs equal quad opteron(hardware that Crafty used to
>win the ICC tournament) and I am not so sure that Ruffian is better.
>
>It is not fair to talk about the case that both programs get a single processor
>and ignore the case that both program get 4 processors(the fact that Ruffian can
>use only one of them is not the fault of Crafty).
>
>Uri


oh come on Uri. Why play the pedantic nitpicker and highlightening _every
inaccuracy_ which occur in some posts?

Of course I should have written "on equal single-processor-hardware". Guess
what? This formulation crossed my mind for a milisecond but I dropped it since I
thought, that it is too obvious to mention it and only a deliberate nitpicker
would highlighten it.

regards Joachim



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