Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:05:29 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 06:48:43, José Carlos wrote: >On August 30, 1999 at 22:45:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 30, 1999 at 21:17:08, Ray MacFadyen wrote: >> >>>I am curious as to the current situation with cray blitz. >>>1.Is it still operational? >> >>yes... >> >>>2.Could it be made operational reasonably easily? >> >>already is... >> >>>3.Would it ever be possible to set it up to play on ICC ? >> >>with some work, as it was written way before there was an xwindows, or an >>xboard/winboard protocol... but that could be added. But the _real_ issue >>is who would supply a Cray to use to play on ICC, when they sell for 30-60 >>million dollars? >> >>That is what led to crafty and PCs... the inability to get significant time >>on a cray to run reasonable tests.. >> >> >> >> >>>Sorry if these questions have already been answered and I have missed them. >>>Yours sincerely >>>Ray MacFadyen > > How strong is Cray Blitz at this moment? Have you continued to improve it? > > José C. Running on a 60M supercomputer, it is far stronger than Crafty (It can search roughly 5-10M nodes per second on a T932). No, it has received no work since I started Crafty in 1995, although some things would likely be ported over if I ever got the urge (R=2 null move, etc...)
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