Author: Roger Brown
Date: 16:49:03 09/09/05
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On September 09, 2005 at 18:37:39, Thomas Logan wrote: >To know one in particular > >Last I looked Shredder is a chessbase engine > >IMHO no currently widely available engine has surpassed it > >at classical time control Hello Thomas, Last I looked at the SSDF list, the ruling version of Shredder was version 9 UCI. This is not a chessbase product. > >A new Shredder will be out soon Versions 7 (UCI)and 9 (UCI) currently sit at positions 3 and 1. Any bets that Shredder 10 UCI will be up there? > >Hiarcs 10 is around the corner > >A beta version of Hiarcs scored 6-4 against Zappa > >while the results are of limited importance it does show Zappa> >will not have a cake walk and who knows it may eventually wind up being a >chessbase engine. Stranger things have happened Zappa's author has said similar things on numerous occasions (leaving out the part about becoming a chessbase engine...). > >And Fruit who knows ? Indeed. That engine is going to raise more than eyebrows... > >These are new and interresting times but don't bury the old guard just yet No burial is contemplated here *but* it is interesting that once upon a time there would have been zero discussion on who was king of the jungle. It simply makes for a fascinating future when two formerly free engines burst into the forefront the way Fruit and Zappa have. There is a debt owed to engines that went before such as Ruffian, Crafty, Yace and TSCP. Some persons may have buried those great ones in the stampede to engine # 7001.09.00 but on my machine they will never die. This is a golden age of computerchess and I for one will not weep if out of it if, as a final consumer of computerchess, I am faced with a bewildering number of choices rather than having just one or two or three. I am greedy, give me more and more until I cannot stand it. :-) Later.
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