Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 19:50:29 02/04/00
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On February 04, 2000 at 21:29:50, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 04, 2000 at 18:45:10, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >> >>Hi! >> >>Do you have any suggestions for the testing of Crafty for the next SSDF-list? >>Book, hash etc. I think the best available book is Nimzo7.32. I have seen >>recommendations for Fritz 5.32 General-book is it a better choice? >>All endgame-TB´s (Turbo-CD) >> >>Yes we know Crafty dislikes AMD K6-2. I have checked the speed against Enriques >>P2-300 and my AMD450 is about 5-7 % faster. >> >>I have done some pre-testing (5-15m/game) and Crafty seems to be good to very >>good. >> >>Bertil SSDF > > >The main question (about the book) is "is this legitimate?" IE does it sound >reasonable to use a non-crafty book to test? No doubt the Nimzo book is better, >as my book has _no_ hand tuning of any kind. And I don't object to using any >book you want. If you regularly test program A using program B's book, then >this seems ok. Your call. > >Other than that, I generally use the default settings for everything, except >for hash, hashp and cache. If you can tell me how much memory you have, I >can at least suggest a number for each, but you will have to test to make sure >it doesn't thrash... I would make sure it knows it's playing a computer, also. If you do end up using the Crafty book, I might change the book width (or other book settings) as well. Without doing this, Crafty seems to almost always play the same couple of openings (It especially likes the Ruy Lopez, Chigorin defense with 12. ...cxd4, which it seems to play in just about every game.).
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