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Subject: Re: Has anyone done a Crafty version tournament?

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 11:26:10 09/07/04

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On September 07, 2004 at 13:29:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On September 07, 2004 at 12:26:59, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On September 07, 2004 at 11:46:59, Axel Schumacher wrote:
>>
>>>On September 07, 2004 at 10:38:25, Cliff Sears wrote:
>>>
>>>>Has anyone done a tournament  Crafty's to see if maybe one of the older versions
>>>>may be better than the newer versions?
>>>>
>>>>I seem to recall someone awile ago saying they thought Crafty 18.13 was one of
>>>>the best.
>>>
>>>
>>>Here the Crafty-Version I tested in my Tournament (after 133.000 games, Blitz):
>>>
>>>Crafty 16.1		2539	94
>>>Crafty 17.13		2646	867
>>>Crafty 17.14		2627	125
>>>Crafty 18.10		2651	665
>>>Crafty 18.12		2657	359
>>>Crafty 18.13		2585	231
>>>Crafty 18.14		2625	242
>>>Crafty 18.15		2632	327
>>>Crafty 19.00		2486	117
>>>Crafty 19.01		2616	304
>>>Crafty 19.03		2640	350
>>>Crafty 19.03 Nimzovich	2427	15
>>>Crafty 19.03 Petrosian	2662	48
>>>Crafty 19.03 Stein	2668	198
>>>Crafty 19.04 Fischer	2685	231
>>>Crafty 19.04 Stein	2672	136
>>>Crafty 19.04b Stein	2615	47
>>>Crafty 19.05		2634	80
>>>Crafty 19.06		2646	110
>>>Crafty 19.07		2628	92
>>>Crafty 19.07 SE		2610	57
>>>Crafty 19.08 SE		2630	89
>>>Crafty 19.09		2652	143
>>>Crafty 19.10 CCT6	2663	126
>>>Crafty 19.11		2643	105
>>>Crafty 19.12		2627	302
>>>Crafty 19.13		2632	196
>>>Crafty 19.14		2616	259
>>>Crafty 19.14 nonsmp	2586	108
>>>Crafty 19.15		2672	373
>>>Crafty 19.17		2621	70
>>>
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>Axel
>>
>>Hi Axel
>>
>>Which build of Crafty 19.17 did you use in this test? I am currently testing two
>>builds by Peter Skinner, an all-processor build, and a build optimized for a P3.
>>Both versions surely seem to be doing much worse than previous versions. :-(
>>
>>Regards
>>Dave
>
>
>You need to be sure and clear position learning files before a match, and be
>sure that the two versions use different book.bin files or learning will
>definitely be broken.

Thanks. But i am not testing one Crafty version against another Crafty version.
I am testing against different engines. And i don't use the Crafty book. I use a
custom pgn book with the Arena pgnbook option, so both engines play both sides
of each fairly equal line.

Dave



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