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Subject: Re: Best non Bitboard Open Source Chess Program

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 03:48:00 07/08/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 05:05:15, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>On July 08, 2004 at 02:41:13, Suntinger Jürgen wrote:
>
>>As the subject explained I want to know which Programm is the best open source
>>chess programm (+ source code) and what is its rating?
>
>>Thanks!
>
>It depends on what you mean by "best"; strongest?
>
>If so, I would say Fruit or Phalanx.
>
>Fruit is probably stronger at fast time controls.  You can download it from
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/

You are too modest, Fabien!  I am sure Fruit is stronger, even at slow time
controls.

>Only few games have been played at slow time controls, so it has no rating that
>I know of.  It is clearly weaker than Crafty but I don't think this has anything
>to do with data structures.  Also that's nothing to be ashamed of.
>
>Note: GNU Chess *4* is IMO also an interesting study.

It is, especially compared to the very ordinary GNU Chess 5.  I wonder
why the rewrite was done.

Tord



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