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Subject: Re: Zappa 2.0 is a very good program, but we need to wait ssdf results.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:01:34 09/09/05

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On September 09, 2005 at 23:48:47, Tanya Deborah wrote:

>On September 09, 2005 at 17:30:59, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>On September 09, 2005 at 16:16:28, Peter Kappler wrote:
>
>
>Hi to all!
>
>   I dont understand why people here are so surprised that Zappa won the
>Computer Chess Championship.
>
>Of course, Zappa 2.0 is a very strong program, much more than the first
>version(1.0 that it is free) but now, i think that the SSdf needs to test Zappa,
>to know exactly how strong is this program (in many long games matches) against
>the best programs.
>
>Speaking about the strengh of the programs, The SSDF results are much more real
>than any other tournament in the world (equal hardware + Much,much more games,
>etc). We have to wait and see if Zappa can play 400-500 games, and has a better
>performance than Shredder 9, also if Zappa can beat the strongest program
>Shredder 9 of the first place, to say that Zappa is the clear #1 in the world.
>
>Of course to win the World Chess Championship is a very great result for any
>programmer, and i want to congratulate his author for this amazing performance,
>but also I would hope that SSDF can test Zappa 2.0 against all the other
>programs for have a better result about the real strengh of this strong program.
>
>SSDF results are by far, much more realistic.
>
>Regards!
>  Tanya Deborah

I suspect that Zappa 2 is about equal to Shredder on equal hardware and that
Fruit is somewhat stronger.

I hope that both programs will be tested on the SSDF list.

I imagine that they will also work their way into CEGT, which has similar
functionality, albeit at faster time control.



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