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Subject: Re: what is now the strongest engine for unix-like systems

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 07:09:49 03/16/04

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On March 16, 2004 at 09:50:44, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>On March 16, 2004 at 09:19:13, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On March 16, 2004 at 06:19:34, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>On March 15, 2004 at 19:23:45, ERIQ wrote:
>>>
>>>>just wanted to know what others thought. I still like phalanx not because of
>>>>strength but style, but thats just me :)
>>>
>>>If you like Phalanx, you are likely to like Gothmog as well.  :-)
>>>
>>>Here are a few of the strongest few engines for Linux, ordered in groups with
>>>similar playing strength (my impressions, I have no ratings):
>>>
>>>Group 1: Deep Sjeng, Ruffian
>>>Group 2: Crafty, Pepito, Yace
>>>Group 3: Amy, Fruit, Gothmog, Gromit, Phalanx
>>>Group 4: Arasan, Beowulf, Butcher, Djinn, Gnuchess, OliThink
>>
>>Phalanx and Arasan are almost in the same level based on Leo's tournament
>
>In my own experiments Phalanx and Arasan both scored around 50% against Fruit,
>so I also consider them to be of equal strength.

Yes, but you have only played 100 games against each opponent, while I have
played hundreds of games against Arasan and probably thousands against
Phalanx.  :-)

My engine has always scored noticably better against Arasan than against
Phalanx.  Gothmog 0.4.5, the last version I tested against both of the
engines under discussion, scored 52.5-47.5 against Phalanx XXII and
68.5-31.5 against Arasan 7.2.

On the other hand, I now see that the two engines are very close
on most public and non-public rating lists.  This is, of course, yet
another example that you need to consider results against more than
one opponent in order to judge the relative strength of two engines.

Tord



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