Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 07:37:47 02/27/05
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On February 27, 2005 at 09:55:07, Uri Blass wrote: >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 I use Crafty under Windows and Linux. It plays the same under both. Bob uses Xboard, the linux counter-part to Winboard. There is virtually no difference. Crafty 19.13 is a pretty decent version, but I always use the latest version regardless of strength. I like to see how the newer additions perform. Peter
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