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Subject: Re: The winner of CCT7, Zappa vs the best frees

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 10:45:54 02/17/05

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On February 17, 2005 at 13:03:34, Gregory Owett wrote:

>Unfortunately, the available v0.80b2 didn't make as well as that of the CCT7 :(

This is not unexpected.  Zappa 0.80b2 is from November last year, which in the
rapidly developing world of amateur computer chess is close to the stone age.
The CCT7 version of Zappa would certainly have scored much better.

>             - Glaurung 0.2.1         1.0 - 3.0

I am sorry to say that the current version of Glaurung does not belong to the
"best frees".  There are some impressive-looking results to be found on the
Web (mainly in the UCI Engines Ligue), but these are caused by too fast time
controls.  At your time control, you can easily find a dozen free engines which
are clearly stronger than Glaurung, but are not included in your tournament.

With some generousity, Glaurung can perhaps be considered as one of the
best _open source_ engines.  It is likely to improve in the future, though.

Tord



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