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Subject: Re: A crippled TIGER is still much better than a full strength CRAFTY :)

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 09:32:35 11/01/99

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On November 01, 1999 at 09:30:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 01, 1999 at 02:32:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 1999 at 22:11:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:

[snip]

>>>We need two tests:  A significant crafty vs tiger match.
>>
>>
>>So you say that the match played by Enrique was not significant?
>>
>>I don't understand. You need a hardware advantage, and you had a hardware
>>advantage in Enrique's match. You had the PIII-500, I had the PII-300.
>
>
>I don't have a clue what you are talking about.  I have pointed out for _years_
>that everything I do has been targeted at beating human players, in preventing
>them from using their normal anti-computer strategies.  I'm interested in how
>you do against crafty.  And how you do against humans as well.  Or are you only
>interested in tiger vs computers, as you and Ed stated when you 'merged'???
>
>As far as enriques test goes, I can't say much either way.  I don't know what
>book.  Etc.  I only take responsibility for "crafty" as it plays on ICC because
>I know what it uses.

Do you mean that games played by people other than you are not valid?

The book, the sound General that comes with F5, wasn't Crafty's, but it was much
better and bigger than Tiger's skeleton book of 7682 positions. I used this
midget book precisely to compensate for Crafty not playing with its own. This
book difference must have played in favor of Crafty by giving more computing
time to it. You can check for yourself that Crafty didn't dislike its positions
after book. So maybe Crafty didn't always play its favorite lines, but neither
did Tiger.

I checked for differences in Crafty as a winboard engine and as a native engine
for Fritz, and I could not detect any, except for winboard running about 2%
faster in NPS than Fritz. I checked this with games and test positions: same
moves, same PVs. Below I copy some.

Enrique


Badai,B
8/1p6/p4p1p/2p1P2k/5P2/6pP/1P4P1/6K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 16.18:

1.exf6 Kg6 2.f7 Kxf7
  ²  (0.63)   depth: 1   00:00:00
  µ  (-1.15)   depth: 3   00:00:00
1.e6 Kg6 2.f5+ Kg7 3.Kf1 c4 4.Ke2 b5
  µ  (-0.75)   depth: 3   00:00:00
  µ  (-1.12)   depth: 19   00:00:46  13687kN
1.f5
  µ  (-0.72)   depth: 19   00:01:16  22727kN
  µ  (-0.72)   depth: 19   00:01:16  22727kN

Winboard:

depth=19 -0.72 1. f5!!
Nodes: 24313481 NPS: 313843
Time: 00:01:17.47

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Botvinnik,M - Capablanca,J
8/p5kp/1p2Pnp1/3pQ3/2pP4/qnP3N1/6PP/6K1 w - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 16.18:

31.e7 Qc1+ 32.Kf2
  -+  (-3.76)   depth: 1   00:00:00
31.Qc7+ Kh8 32.Qb8+ Kg7 33.Qc7+
  =  (0.00)   depth: 4   00:00:01
  =  (0.00)   depth: 11   00:00:19  4898kN
31.Nh5+
  ²  (0.40)   depth: 11   00:01:01  14936kN
  ²  (0.40)   depth: 11   00:01:01  14936kN

Winboard:

depth=11 +0.40 1. Nh5+!!
Nodes: 15174959 NPS: 251824
Time: 00:01:00.26


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Suetin - Kasparian,G
8/pr3pk1/4p1p1/q1pnP1Br/1pQ1R2P/3R4/PPP2P2/K7 b - - 0 1

Analysis by Crafty 16.18:

1...Kg8 2.Rg4
  ±  (1.31)   depth: 1   00:00:00
  +-  (1.47)   depth: 2   00:00:00
1...Qb5 2.Qb3 Qc6 3.Rg3 Qb5 4.Rc4 Kg8 5.Qd3
  ±  (1.25)   depth: 2   00:00:00
  ±  (1.33)   depth: 8   00:00:02  450kN
1...Kg8 2.Rd1 Rd7 3.Qb3
  ±  (1.18)   depth: 8   00:00:04  901kN
1...Rd7 2.Re2 Kg8 3.Red2 Qc7 4.Qe4 c4 5.Rd4 c3
  ±  (1.17)   depth: 8   00:00:07  1735kN
  ±  (1.17)   depth: 9   00:00:13  3135kN
1...Qb5 2.Qb3 Qa6 3.Rd1 Rb5 4.Rg4 Kg8 5.Kb1 Ra5 6.f3
  ±  (1.05)   depth: 9   00:00:18  4575kN
  ±  (1.00)   depth: 10   00:00:24  6253kN
1...Rxg5 2.hxg5 Nb6 3.Qb3 c4 4.Rxc4 Nxc4 5.Qxc4 Rc7 6.Qb3 Qxe5
  ²  (0.70)   depth: 10   00:00:37  9839kN
  ²  (0.70)   depth: 10   00:00:37  9839kN

Winboard:

depth=10 +0.70 1. ... Rxg5 2. hxg5 Nb6 3. Qb3 c4 4. Rxc4 Nxc4 5. Qxc4 Rc7 6. Qb3
Qxe5
Nodes: 10686290 NPS: 279965
Time: 00:00:38.17




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