Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 07:00:37 10/08/99
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On October 08, 1999 at 08:35:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 07, 1999 at 23:41:04, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On October 07, 1999 at 10:27:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On October 07, 1999 at 00:45:55, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>(talking about Crafty) >> >>>>* It is not designed to play a game with ponder=off >>> >>>true... >>> >>>>* It is not designed for slow computers >>> >>> >>>true... >>> >>>>* It is not designed for 32 bits computers. >>>> >>> >>>true, but it plays just fine on 32 bit computers... >>> >>>> >>>>Am I correct, or is one of the above points wrong? >>>> >>> >>> >>>depends on the point you make with the point. It is designed around >>>64 bit machines. It plays fine on decent 32 bit machines. Which is >>>why I test only on my PII/xeon... >> >> >>So in the case somebody wants to play Tiger against Crafty (played on two >>identical PCs), and wants a good number of games in a reasonnable amount of >>time, what would be the minimum requirements you would consider as fair for your >>program? >> >>I mean which time control and which processor speed, or which combination of the >>two? >> >>(Personally I have no requirement, except that the game should not be shorter >>than game in 4. Apart from that I would be satisified with any time control at >>any processor speed) >> >> >> >> Christophe > > >all that I particularly care about is that the games be played on two machines >of roughly comparable speeds/memory. Other minor considerations: (1) use >crafty's book. Not the Fritz book, the Hiarcs book, the Genius book, or any >other book. Put the tablebases on hard drive, not on a CD, as that will kill >it when it starts probing in the search. > >Other than that, anything is fine. Using two machines, ponder=off is not >needed. The rest is just common sense. Crafty has stuff in its book that >helps it choose which line to play. Using other books means that they are >running using the Fritz gui, which means _CRAFTY_ doesn't make the opening >moves at all, it has no control until out of book. I would _love_ to be >able to choose my opponent's opening moves. :) In Fritz it is possible to use a book based on human theory. In fact, the General book that comes standard with Fritz 5.32 is made like this, with "aseptic" GM games. When using such a book, Crafty is not playing Fritz's opening lines and I don't see how it would be at a disadvantage against other programs that use the same kind of untuned book, Fritz for instance. Enrique
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