Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:55:07 02/27/05
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On February 27, 2005 at 08:54:19, Christos Gitsis wrote: >On February 27, 2005 at 02:37:09, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: > >> THE SSDF RATING LIST 2005-02-25 101022 games played by 270 computers >> Rating + - Games Won Oppo >> ------ --- --- ----- --- ---- > >> 34 Crafty 18.12/CB 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz 2617 26 -26 727 49% 2622 >... >> 38 Crafty 19.17 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz 2522 43 -47 264 31% 2664 > >How come Crafty 19 is so much lower rated than Crafty 18? Is it really so much >weaker than the previous version? >This seems strange to me, especially since from what I know (correct me if I am >wrong) the ChessBase interface does not allow WinBoard engines to play at full >strength. 19.17 is known to be a bad version also under winboard. 19.13 performed better than 19.17 in all the test tournaments that Leo did so Leo decided to use 19.13 for WBEC and 19.13 did very well there and it is the leading amateur(even better than prodeo1.1). see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/ Based on what I remember from previous discussions it seems that Hyatt did not test crafty under winboard but only with linux and testing it on ICC was misleading because it seems that Crafty19.17 behaves different under windows enviroment. Uri
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