Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 22:27:45 10/01/99
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On October 01, 1999 at 23:17:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 01, 1999 at 22:39:18, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >[snip] >>I am very interested in that statement. What is Crafty's record at 5 0 against >>the top 4 or 5 programs. They do not play in the auto move mode unless there are >>beta testers testing the new programs such as Fritz6 but under wraps, I dont >>know !. >>I think a qualifier on "best ever" and under what blitz speed should have been >>stated. I would not dispute the claim, not at all, you are very reliable but I >>am a little defensive for the other top programs when it comes to comarisons to >>crafty cause ssdf has no data available to us !. I can say that Crafty vs Hiarcs >>at time 5 0 very much favours Hiarcs on idential cpu's and memory. I believe the >>same can be said of Junior5 and Fritz5.32 but I dont have enough data to draw >>that conclusion. >There's the rub. Crafty's hardware is far more advanced than any opponent. It >(the record holder version) is on a quad-processor Intel Xeon machine. Crafty >is a multi-threaded chess program, and the only one in existance that is >publicly available right now. I understand that others are working on this. It >may be possible that multi-threaded Diep is available now (Vincent?). >There is a multi-threaded Junior, but I am fairly sure that no one can get their >hands on it or even play against it. >On a single processor, Crafty is a formidable foe. I should be rather surprised >if Crafty were not the top dog. Don't forget Ferret. It also runs on a quad xeon that is a bit faster than mine (450 vs 400). He's tough as nails and probably clearly the best computer on ICC, period...
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