Author: David Dawson
Date: 00:47:47 03/27/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 01:34:14, blass uri wrote: >The real test is to give Crafty and Fritz the same rights to choose every >machine that money can buy (including parallel machine) and do a match between >them at tournament time control. > Seems to me the only thing this will test is the 2 machines. >If Fritz5.32 cannot earn from parallel machine then it is Fritz's problem >because the possibility to use parallel machine is part of the crafty's >program. The Fritz company really has nothing to gain by including multi-processor support. The investment would likely be greater than the return, and Fritz is a money making project, not a hobby as crafty is. When you put time into your hobby you tend to go for "pure excellence" rather than something that looks good and is cost effective. > >If Fritz can win Crafty in this test then Fritz is better than crafty. >otherwise the reply may be machine dependent. > >Uri The question: "which program is better" is somewhat ambiguous. I think it depends on how you define "Crafty". Now, if "crafty" is not a program, but a self-contained chessplayer such as Deep Blue (or Hyatt's 4x200 machine) we might as well forget all about chess programming "knowledge" and start building the supreme multi-processing computer. The only competition will be other SMP programs. However, if "crafty" the program is compared to Fritz, the only fair thing to do would be to match them on similar/identical systems.
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