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Subject: Re: A Question for Robert Hyatt

Author: odell hall

Date: 15:45:28 09/11/99

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On September 11, 1999 at 17:42:50, walter irvin wrote:

>On September 11, 1999 at 17:20:44, odell hall wrote:
>
>>On September 11, 1999 at 16:23:30, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On September 11, 1999 at 16:07:47, odell hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 11, 1999 at 15:27:43, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On September 11, 1999 at 14:05:12, Leon Stancliff wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Robert,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have been speculating for a long time on what would take place in a match
>>>>>>between the top ten computer programs running on easily available machines and
>>>>>>the top ten chess players in the USA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have been playing my Hiarcs 7 program on a Macintosh G3 at 275 Mhz. It plays
>>>>>>almost even with both Data and Singacrafty on ICC.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have assembled the following list of computer programs from such sources as
>>>>>>the SSDF list and the Selective Search list. In your opinion, would Data,
>>>>>>Singacrafty or Crafty deserve a position in this list?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Hiarcs 7.32
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Fritz 5.32
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Chessmaster 6000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Nimzo 99
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Chess Tiger 11.8.2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Junior 5
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Rebel 10
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Shredder 3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Genius 5
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   MChess Pro 7
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   Let's assume that each is running at about 550 Mhz on a single CPU.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   MChess Pro 7
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I wouldn't venture a guess.  If you put crafty on a quad xeon 550, it can beat
>>>>>_any_ of those programs.  On equal hardware I really don't know as I don't play
>>>>>on 'equal' hardware.  :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Oh yes!, i would love to see the results of crafty verses the top programs on
>>>>equal hardware, It would be interesting to see how it would measure up.
>>>
>>>Consider that putting Crafty on equal hardware takes away one of it's valuable
>>>tools, probably not fair to the nature of Crafty.
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>  Well, I would think that if the purpose of pitting one program against another
>>is to see which program is written best, and has the best playing strength, then
>>equal hardware is required, otherwise the test is not valid
>
>you are right if you are talking engine vs engine ,but somewhere you got to take
>into consideration the fact that crafty can gain from speedup of multi
>processors ,so if your equal hardware is quad xeon then , they have equal
>hardware .the programmers should make there programs run on more than 1
>processor .they should also use egtb,open book ect ect its part of the game .if
>you dont put it in , your not going to be the best .crafty has everything a
>program should have ,plus even though he is not getting paid better support
>,than most other programs .i think it is a shame that the other programs dont
>use smp .
>also if you want to be absolute and realy get down to engine strength then there
>should be equal hardware no oppening books no egtb , straight engine power.but i
>think the open book ,egtb ,smp,learn,ect are all part of what makes up a
>programs ELO .


yes i was referring to engine vs engine, and assumed that is what the original
poster was referring to also.



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