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Subject: Re: Robert Pawlak's reviews:

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:52:44 05/03/05

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On May 02, 2005 at 21:50:36, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>Almost everything you will need is in Leo Dijksman's site:
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/.

Leo' site is indeed an excellent and important resource.  The Winboard forum
is also extremely useful:

http://wbforum.volker-pittlik.name/

Here you will also find links to lots of other interesting sites and forums.

>If you are looking for the strongest free engines, look at the rating lists.

If you mean Leo's rating list, I don't agree.  The number of games is far too
small, and many of the engine versions are too old.  This is not intended as
criticism of Leo's work (which I and all other engine authors I know consider
as outstanding and very important for the community).  Producing accurate
and updated rating lists is simply not what Leo tries to do.

It is far better to look at the AEGT ratings or Robert Allgeuer's list.

>There is much debate about this, but I think that ProDeo, Aristarch and Ruffian
>are the strongest free WinBoard engines (approximately of the same strength),
>and also List (which is a UCI engine and you will have to follow some procedure
>before you can make it run under WinBoard).

I may be wrong, but isn't Pro Deo also a UCI engine?

By the way, I think Fruit, Spike, SlowChess and Thinker (and perhaps others)
all belong to the same league as the above-mentioned engines.  There are also
many interesting engines among the weaker ones.

Tord




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