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Subject: Re: The opponents were "2nd. line" engines......

Author: Gerd Isenberg

Date: 13:42:19 11/06/02

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On November 06, 2002 at 14:41:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 06, 2002 at 13:19:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>Probably the first 7 finishers were above the level of Crafty, even
>>>more will be stronger than Comet.
>>
>>I think that is a _big_ stretch...  IMHO of course.  Based on _many_ games on
>>ICC.
>
>I'm sure at least ChessTiger, The King, Diep and Deep Sjeng are stronger.
>(Diep maybe only at slower games, I'm sure Vincent will gladly
>tell us the details)
>
>I'm quite sure the latest Insomniac and Warp are stronger.
>
>I suspect IsiChess is also stronger, but I haven't seen
>enough of that program to make a sound conclusion.

I don't think so. May be possible with sime kind of tuning.
That could be the reason, why public not availible enginges are considered
stronger than Crafty. I guess, if Bob comes to some ICGA-tournaments with his
latest not yet public availible version and an appropriate tournament book,
things may be different.

Gerd

>
>I don't think ICC games are good indications of strength. I
>use it for debugging. I suspect many others do the same. The
>tournament versions are a different matter altogether.
>
>--
>GCP



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