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Subject: Re: Poll Suggestion: Which amateur engine to be tested by SSDF?

Author: José Carlos

Date: 04:06:55 02/17/02

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On February 16, 2002 at 22:53:30, Mike S. wrote:

>In the SSDF thread below, Thoralf explains the SSDF will sometimes test an
>amateur, or non-commercial program (as they did with Crafty already):
>
>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?213783
>
>It seems unlikely that they will have the time to test more than one, if any, of
>the available strong amateur engines. So I thought maybe it would be a good idea
>for a poll question.
>
>Which amateur engine should to be tested by the SSDF?
>
>A list of at least 10 *available* strong amateur engines should be offered, to
>choose from.
>
>I'm not sure if it would make sense to demand tests of an engine unavailable to
>the public (?). Anyway, to include such engines in the poll, it would be
>necessary beforehand to know IMO, if the programmer is willing to provide a copy
>to the SSDF for testing.
>
>Of course SSDF members will decide themselves, if and which program they will
>test, but the poll results could probably be a good basis to decide which one to
>choose if they want to.
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

  For that to be really interesting for SSDF people we need (IMO) an engine
which is not updated very often, for example once or twice a year like
commercials.
  It also has to be very strong.
  YACE seems the natural choice, but Goliath, Nejmet and Anmon probably meet the
above requeriments also. So, my suggestion:

  YACE
  Nejmet
  Goliath
  Anmon

  José C.



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