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Subject: Re: Suggestions for Crafty-testing!? SSDF

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 08:23:02 02/05/00

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On February 04, 2000 at 22:44:34, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On February 04, 2000 at 19:38:05, Bertil Eklund wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 2000 at 19:22:13, Jeremiah Penery 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?
>>
>>Unfortunately, whatever we choose can be critizised, with right or unright.
>>
>>>Do you plan on using Crafty in the Fritz interface or something?  I wouldn't
>>>recommend this unless all the 'issues' have been worked out...
>>
>>When?
>
>?
>
>>I think the Nimzo book with learning is better than the Crafty-book, at least
>>against Computers.
>
>I'm sure it probably is.  The book is not what I was referring to, however.  I
>was referring to the issues such as Fritz sending 'new' and 'force' commands a
>lot, as well as anything else it may be doing wrong.  I'm not sure whether these
>things have been fixed or not.  If they haven't been fixed yet, I don't think it
>would be a great idea to put too much faith in any results achieved within the
>Fritz interface.
>

Hi!

Crafty doesn´t clear the hash-tables between moves. This have been "fixed" a
long time ago.
>>>>All endgame-TB´s (Turbo-CD)
>>>
>>>If you use TBs from a CD, Crafty will get slaughtered when trying to probe them.
>>> Even on my HD, a bunch of probes slow it down a _ton_.
>>>
>>All on HD. I think Crafty is very efficient in the use of TB´s Much Better than
>>Nimzo and Hiarcs.
>
>I agree. :)  In this case, full speed ahead. :)
>
>(Will it use the new 6-piece stuff, too? :)

No, the four Turbo-CDs from Chessbase.

Bertil


>>Bertil
>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>Yeegh.  That doesn't seem too good. :(
>>>
>>>>I have done some pre-testing (5-15m/game) and Crafty seems to be good to very
>>>>good.
>>>
>>>:)



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