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Subject: Re: SSDF should test Aristarch 4.50 instead of endless Crafty XX.YYs !!

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 12:47:28 10/29/04

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On October 29, 2004 at 08:52:00, Albert Silver wrote:

>>>> 3 Deep Fritz 8.0  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz   2790   26   -25   855   72%  2625
>>>> 6 Deep Fritz 7.0  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz   2769   24   -24   898   66%  2655
>>>> 7 Fritz 8.0  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz        2759   22   -22  1043   65%  2649
>>>>10 Fritz 7.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz         2744   29   -28   634   63%  2653
>>>>16 Deep Fritz 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz        2718   30   -29   571   61%  2642
>>>>28 Deep Fritz 7.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz      2655   31   -31   498   53%  2637
>>>>29 Deep Fritz  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2650   22   -21  1071   58%  2590
>>>>35 Fritz 7.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2633   38   -37   348   53%  2611
>
>>>> 1 Shredder 8.0 CB  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz  2818   34   -32   481   70%  2673
>>>> 2 Shredder 7.04 UCI 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz 2809   24   -23   967   71%  2648
>>>> 5 Shredder 7.0  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz     2772   27   -25   801   70%  2624
>>>>11 Shredder 6.0 Pad UCI 256MB Athlon 1200  2725   22   -22  1033   62%  2642
>>>>12 Shredder 6.0  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz     2723   31   -30   547   62%  2634
>>>>19 Shredder 7.0 UCI 128MB K6-2 450 MHz     2699   34   -34   429   54%  2669
>>>>26 Shredder 5.32  256MB Athlon 1200 MHz    2663   26   -26   739   50%  2661
>>>>37 Shredder 6.0 UCI 128MB K6-2 450 MHz     2618   43   -43   264   52%  2607
>
>>>The comparison is relative to other amateurs.
>>
>>Why the comparision to Crafty?  Bob has won two world championships and has been
>>chess programming longer than most of the other authors have been on the face of
>>the earth.  I agree that perhaps other "amatuers" should be tested - but not at
>>the expense of Crafty.  We can go with few less testing of the professionals
>>(imo) as shown above.  Do we really need 4 different flavors of Frizt 7?
>
>I'll defend those 4 flavors actually. For one thing, it is known that Deep Fritz
>7 is more than an SMP version of Fritz 7, it is an upgrade of the engine, even
>on a single CPU. Also, the testing on more than one hardware configuration has
>provided many fascinating results, allowing us to better understand how much is
>gained by doubling or tripling the raw processing power.
>
>I wouldn't take away Crafty of course, which more or less paved the way by being
>the first amateur to be tested on the list if I'm not mistaken. However, it
>really would be nice to see some of the other very strong amateurs also tested.
>
>                                           Albert

I think it's a waste of time to test deep fritz on single processor systems.

Either you have a dual and want to see how the deep programs do on duals, or you
don't have a dual and so you would instead buy the version optimized for single
processor.

But also in light of the constant race for amateurs trying to catch up, more
information on this would be interesting. Are amateurs catching up or do the top
professionals increase their lead?

All in all the flood of fritzes is rather boring, IMO.

-S.



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