Author: blass uri
Date: 00:55:25 03/27/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 03:47:47, David Dawson wrote: >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. I do not agree I think that there can be a competition for non SMP programs if the programs are better. > >However, if "crafty" the program is compared to Fritz, the only fair thing to do >would be to match them on similar/identical systems. It is not fair because part of the effort in doing the program crafty is by doing it a parallel machine. I believe that Bob could do in the same time a better program if he did not waste time for doing a SMP program. Uri
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