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Subject: Re: So Many Winboard Engines Which ones to chose from?

Author: pavel

Date: 18:06:17 05/30/02

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On May 30, 2002 at 20:55:06, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 30, 2002 at 20:39:14, pavel wrote:
>
>>On May 30, 2002 at 20:26:00, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>Please list the 10 best Free Winboard Chess Engines that YOU think are the best
>>>- they should have:
>>>
>>>Playing strength (Please Estimate ELO Rating)
>>>Full implementation of Winboard commands
>>>Bug free
>>>EGTB
>>>Opening book
>>>Mutilple time settings
>>>Good Documentation
>>
>>IMO: Ten Best (I think) "Free" winboard engines.
>>
>>(in no perticular order, because it is hard to say for sure or even to estimate,
>>who is better than whom)
>>
>>Crafty
>>Yace
>>Anmon
>>SoS
>>Bringer
>>Comet
>>Phalanx
>>Little Goliath
>>Gromit
>>Phraon
>>
>>If I had more choices, I would add, Amy, Sjeng, BeoWulf and Delfi, only because
>>they have some kind of uniqueness in themself
>>
>>
>>>
>>>This is a survey - there are so many engines now - I would like try some of the
>>>best - but I don't which ones - besides Crafty.
>>
>>The Best beside Crafty, would "without doubt" be YACE.
>
>Gauntlet data (relatively long time control games, minimum 12 games completed):
>
>    Program            Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
>  1 LG2000V3         : 2589   97 197    31    77.4 %   2375    6.5 %
>  2 Yace 0.99.50     : 2587   31 104   188    86.2 %   2269   12.8 %
>  3 MAD-005          : 2583   37 110   145    83.1 %   2306   10.3 %
>  4 Crafty-18.10     : 2580  102 138    29    75.9 %   2381   27.6 %
>  5 Comet-B37        : 2554  103 129    31    71.0 %   2399   25.8 %
>  6 TCBishop-4601    : 2543  103 165    30    73.3 %   2367   13.3 %
>  7 Gromit3          : 2528   99 100    36    66.7 %   2407   33.3 %
>  8 Nejmet-260       : 2526  109 163    28    71.4 %   2367   14.3 %
>  9 Phalanx-xxii     : 2524  105 160    31    69.4 %   2382    9.7 %
> 10 AnMon-509        : 2519   33  83   195    81.0 %   2267   14.4 %


It does'nt prove that Yace is not "best" besides Crafty. :)
IMO Yace-Crafty is reasonably above the rest of the crowd.

The closest to Yace-Crafty would probably be LG2000.






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