Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 17:21:30 09/09/05
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On September 09, 2005 at 19:49:03, Roger Brown wrote: >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. The cb version is of equal strength > >> >>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? I do not expect that Shredder 10 will be weaker than 7.04 or 9 > > >> >>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...). Yes New and old realities clash for supremacy and the conclusion is not yet written > >> >>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. That is true and most amazing Such thought were unthinkable just a little while ago > >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. Amen > >I am greedy, give me more and more until I cannot stand it. And amen again > >:-) > >Later. Tom
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