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Subject: Re: Qualification tournaments Crafty with "Bilguer.ctg" - gwmes -

Author: Christos Gitsis

Date: 15:00:41 09/03/05

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On September 03, 2005 at 16:28:08, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On September 03, 2005 at 15:42:21, Robert Hollay wrote:
>
>> Don't have all Crafty v20.0 versions (DC,PS,BH) identical sources?
>>If yes, then these results only prove how small number of games can be
>>misleading in estimating playing strengths. Especially bad results
>>of Crafty 20.0 BH suprise me, because AFAIK BH's compiles are the fastest
>>around.
>>
>>Robert
>
>Actually I have benched all the different compiles out there, and mine is close
>to 10% faster than all the others.
>
>Dan makes some changes to the code as well for epd files and fen positions I
>think. Maybe that does something to the final build.
>
>I know Bryan used to remove the epd support to gain a speed edge, but I don't
>know if he still does that.
>
>I worked very hard to find the best set of compile options for Crafty with the
>VS Studio 2005 Beta 2 compiler.
>
>All I know if of all the builds, mine is the fastest on my system and many have
>reported the same regarding their systems. And it shows.. the number of
>downloads from my site in 7 days is staggering.
>
>If you look at those numbers from the site you have to remember that I also
>switched from PHP-Nuke 7.8 to 7.6 and had to reset all the stats. So the numbers
>are even larger. 19.20 for instance had almost 250 downloads the first day it
>was released, and then I switched the version number....
>
>Peter

Hello Peter,

On my Athlon 64, Crafty 20.0 BH is 4% faster than the DC and PS versions.

Regards,
Christos



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