Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:42:12 04/02/04
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On April 02, 2004 at 16:33:21, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 02, 2004 at 16:23:54, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 02, 2004 at 16:17:47, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On April 02, 2004 at 15:04:15, martin fierz wrote: >>> >>>>On April 02, 2004 at 12:36:58, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 02, 2004 at 12:09:29, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On April 02, 2004 at 11:46:56, Christian Koch wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>see http://rahman85.tripod.com/rahman.html >>>>>> >>>>>>All engines goes commercial ! >>>>>> >>>>>>I hold me then only the best 5 (MAX)! >>>>>>Is this the way? >>>>>> >>>>>>Eduard >>>>> >>>>>All the engines can go commercial, but most people will only buy the top 5 rated >>>>>by the SSDF and other Rating agencies. >>>>> >>>>>Jorge >>>> >>>>"let's all buy weak engines" - ahem, do you mean to imply that ktulu is weak?? >>>>ktulu is a very good free engine, and if version 5 gets something like 50-100 >>>>points better it is certainly a reasonable move to make it commercial... >>>> >>>>cheers >>>> martin >>> >>>Crafty level engines are considered as weak relative to the commercial and even >>>going 100 elo higher is not enough. >>> >>>I guess that ktulu needs to get at least 150 elo better to be in the same league >>>as Junior or Fritz that mean competing for the second place after shredder. >> >>That's on the one hand. (Actually, 200 will be needed for >>ChessTiger/Junior/Fritz territory I think). >> >>On the other hand, 100 Elo will make it stronger than many engines already >>professional. From Leo's list we have this: >> >>1 0 DeepSjeng 1.5 * 2734 0 236 >>2 0 The King 3.23 * 2696 0 68 >>3 0 Ruffian 2.0.0 * 2691 0 304 >>4 0 Gandalf 4.32h * 2650 0 340 >>5 0 Aristarch 4.21 2642 0 382 >>6 0 Little Goliath 3.9 po 2627 0 380 >>7 0 Rebel 12 * 2627 0 68 >>8 0 SmarThink 0.17a 2623 0 515 >>9 0 WARP 0.58 ** 2615 0 252 >>10 0 GreenLightChess 3.00 2614 0 464 >>11 0 Crafty 19.06 2596 0 416 >>12 0 Yace Paderborn 2582 0 488 >>13 0 Zarkov 4.5e ** 2578 0 340 >>14 0 Quark 2.05b 2547 0 432 >>15 0 Dragon 4.5 2545 0 532 >>16 0 Nejmet 3.07 2535 0 528 >>17 0 Ktulu 4.1 2531 0 68 >> >>2531 + 150 = 2681 which would be about the level of Rebel and Gandalf on this >>list. >> >>Zarkov is available commercially (Bookup sells it IIRC) and is very near to the >>strength of Ktulu. > >This rating is for ktulu4.1 and ktulu4.2 may be slightly better. Yes, I think probably it is.
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