Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:58:43 02/27/04
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On February 27, 2004 at 19:56:54, Uri Blass wrote: [snip] >1)Ed did not explain everything and he admitted that there are things that he >did not explain because they are ideas of christophe. This is reasonable, of course. >2)There are a lot of free programs that are only slightly weaker than Rebel. Depending on your definition of "slightly weaker" and "a lot" I think this is a stretch. From Leo's list: Rank: Rating Rating Games Division: New: Engine: New: Up/D: Total: Next: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 DeepSjeng 1.5 * 2734 0 236 Premier 2 The King 3.23 * 2696 0 68 Premier 3 Ruffian 2.0.0 * 2691 0 304 Premier 4 Gandalf 4.32h * 2650 0 340 Premier 5 A Aristarch 4.21 2642 0 382 Premier 6 B Little Goliath 3.9 po 2627 0 380 Premier 7 Rebel 12 * 2627 0 68 Premier 8 C SmarThink 0.17a 2623 0 515 Premier 9 $ WARP 0.58 ** 2615 0 252 Premier 10 D GreenLightChess 3.00 2614 0 464 Premier 11 E Crafty 19.06 2596 0 416 Premier 12 F Yace Paderborn 2582 0 488 Premier 13 $ Zarkov 4.5e ** 2578 0 340 Premier 14 H Quark 2.05b 2547 0 432 Premier 15 I Dragon 4.5 2545 0 532 Premier 16 J Nejmet 3.07 2535 0 528 Premier 17 K Ktulu 4.1 2531 0 68 1st 18 L Tao 5.4 2530 0 298 Premier There are about a dozen amateur programs within 100 Elo of Rebel (13 if Zarkov is amateur), and two of those are private. >3)I do not assume that they spend more time on it. >I know that at least Amir ban has a full time job not in chess programming and >the same is probably the case for part of the other commercial programmers. The programmers with programs of equal or higher strength have surely all spent thousands of hours on their projects (including reading, coding, etc.)
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