Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 10:41:50 03/29/99
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On March 27, 1999 at 19:01:40, Adnan wrote: >On March 27, 1999 at 12:42:47, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>The results depend on which "equal hardware" you are using. If you get wo >>quad-Xeon computers (like Bob's), and match Crafty (using its SMP code) against >>the same programs you will get better results for crafty, as the other programs >>will only be wasting three of the four processors (and crafty will be using the >>four). > >It is immaterial whether or not Crafty would do better on four processors >because other programs won't even work on four processors. The question is >how Crafty does under windows compared to Fritz, Junior and Hiarcs. The simple >asnswer is that Crafty is weaker, much weaker. Is it? Many of the commercial programs 'hang out' on ICC and play very strong players as does Crafty. Currently, a single processor Crafty (Mofongo) is higer rated (3070) than any of the commercial ones there. His is this "Much weaker". I've played thousands of speed games, against computers, and cannot really tell *any* strength difference between Crafty and Fritz. Crafty seems more oriented to play well against humans than against computers. Perhaps this is why the perception exists that it is much weaker than the commercials. But other than computer-computer testing, I don't see much evidence to support this position. Chris Dorr USCF Master > >By the way, 99% people who play chess do not have a 4 processor computers >anyway.
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